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...commuter who gets a seat, salvation is a card game. Pinochle and hearts are played on the Syosset line, bridge on the Port Washington line. On the Oyster Bay line sanity is preserved by a swift suppression of sociability. The man standing with the chiming clock says that not enough of his usual players showed up tonight. Day after day, week after week, month after month, for 17 years, he has been playing pinochle with the same people. Are they friends, godfathers to one another's children, comforters in sorrow, celebrators in joy? "No, off the train we dislike each...
...guerrilla organizations claim to be both willing and able to help in the relief effort. Operating out of underground bunkers in Eritrea, they organize occasional truck convoys to ferry supplies from Port Sudan on the Red Sea into their territory. What the insurgents lack, however, is access to adequate relief supplies and the means to transport them through a war zone. The Mengistu government has refused rebel offers of free passage for food aid intended to reach the hinterland's of the war-torn provinces...
...searching for a modern Dover Beach, it might help to pause first at Arnold's. What must have been, in Arnold's time, an attractively hectic seaside resort and sailing port seems strangely lifeless now, in spite of the fact that Dover remains one of the largest passenger ports in the world. Huge, squat ferries chug efficiently and frequently between Dover and Calais. Travelers walk a few steps from a train to a boat and are off. The ease and speed with which a Channel crossing is now done may have deprived Dover of its 19th century character, except...
...that first made its mark during the Falklands war. With a range of up to 1,000 miles, the Mirages are also capable of venturing deeper into the gulf than aircraft used by the Iraqis in the past. Iraq's aim: to interdict oil shipments from the Iranian oil port at Kharg Island, thus pressing Tehran to bring the gulf war to a negotiated...
When Fidel Castro opened up the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980 and approximately 125,000 Cubans streamed into the U.S., President Carter urged Congress to pass legislation making the newcomers eligible for permanent resident status. But Congress never complied. Since then, the Marielitos, most of whom live in Florida, have remained in legal limbo. That began to change last week when new regulations went into effect permitting the Marielitos to register for permanent resident status. Outside Miami-area immigration offices, Marielitos crowded into lines as early as 3 a.m. At week's end over 20,000 had taken...