Word: northern
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Four years ago Southern Pacific agreed to merge with the Santa Fe railroad to form what would be the second largest U.S. line, after Burlington Northern (25,500 miles). The Interstate Commerce Commission, though, ruled that the combination stifled competition and that the new Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. must dispose of one of its lines. Last week the company said it would sell the Southern Pacific to the Rio Grande for $1.8 billion, creating the fifth biggest U.S. railroad...
...Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull Connor in Birmingham; Philadelphia, Miss.; Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney . . . But race and slavery, America's original sin, came back always, and had begun to break into sporadic warfare in the Northern ghettos...
...helicopters rattle over the border's farmlands, troops survey the countryside from 60-ft.-high watchtowers. With 10,000 British soldiers serving in ten battalions in Ulster, an army spokesman notes, "you get soldiers who are very young and want action. Where do they get it better than in Northern Ireland? They pick up infantry skills they could not get on any training course." The R.U.C. keeps in constant contact with the Garda Siochana, the police force of the Irish Republic. "There used to be a lot of ambivalence from Dublin about terrorism," says a high-ranking R.U.C. officer...
...Babbitt has to offer seems reserved for his family: Wife Hattie, 40, a Phoenix trial lawyer he met while working in the Texas antipoverty program, and Sons Christopher, 12, and T.J., 10. Ardent naturalists, the Babbitts regularly spent weekends and holidays hiking the canyons and skiing the mountains of northern Arizona before the campaign...
...Queen thus joined her subjects in Northern Ireland, both Catholic and Protestant, in expressing revulsion at the I.R.A. bombing in Enniskillen last November that resulted in the deaths of eleven civilians. The I.R.A. struck again last week: John McMichael, a leading Protestant activist, was blown up in his booby-trapped car outside Belfast. Said Joe Hendron, a Belfast city councilman: "McMichael had made a constructive attempt to end the political impasse...