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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overdue Measures. "This is what we've been warning people about for months," says Chairman Joseph O'Connell of the National Transportation Safety Board (TIME, May 10). The tiny agency (250 staffers), which has no enforcement power, has been trying to get railroads to adopt long-overdue safety measures. Derailments are the leading cause of train accidents, which increased by 71% between 1961 and 1968. "With the railroads hauling more hazardous materials, the potential for catastrophic accidents bothers the hell out of me," says O'Connell...
Most of the new towns that have gone up so far have been purely private efforts, often backed by insurance firms or big industrial corporations that can afford the enormous outlays required to assemble large land parcels and install the roads, sewers, power lines and other unprofitable facilities that must be built before residents can begin moving...
...Communists' inability or unwillingness to mount a larger series of assaults than they did last week made the President's indecision a little easier. Unlike Tet last year, the attacks caused no real upset of the balance of power in South Viet Nam. Allied forces were not forced to redeploy, nor did any important defenses budge. The Communists completely bypassed recently pacified and highly vulnerable allied pacification areas in the countryside, concentrating largely on military installations. "We expect our indicators will wiggle a little," said U.S. Pacification Chief William E. Colby, "but so far the effect...
...West Germany. Since the products on the Pravda list include West Berlin's major exports, a ban on their transport through East Germany would strike a severe, perhaps debilitating blow at the West Berlin economy. In another charge, the Soviets accused the West Germans of breaking four-power agreements by recruiting West Berliners for the Bundeswehr. Nor did the Western allies escape Russian blasts. In an obvious threat to the allied air rights into the city, the Soviets charged that Western allies were abetting the schemes of the West Berlin industrialists by flying war materiel across East Germany...
...Syrian government. In what amounted to yet another upheaval in Syria, Lieut. General Hafiz Assad, the Defense Minister, posted troops around government ministries and television studios in a show of strength against Chief of State Dr. Noureddine al Atassi and Baathist Party Boss Salah Jaid. If Assad makes his power play stick, one result could well be an end to Syria's quarrels with the rival Baath party in Iraq, and its isolation in the Arab world, which could lead to a more active role against Israel...