Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot. Walcott first turned up in India in the early 1960s as president of a four-plane freight airline. Suavely posing as an American millionaire, he won a contract from Air-India to haul freight between landlocked Afghanistan and Indian rail centers. Traveling freely throughout India, Walcott often made short hops in his twin-engine Piper Apache until one day in 1962, when police checked the plane and found a crate that everyone had assumed contained spare parts for one of Walcott's laid-up DC-4s. Instead police found 10,000 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition, an item...
Taped-On Diamonds. It was a routine police check that finally caught Walcott. Using a British passport in the name of Barry Phillips Charles Comyn, Walcott and an accomplice apparently went to India last month by sea and rail from Ceylon and registered at a fashionable Bombay hotel. A detective questioning the hotel staff about foreign guests learned that the two men often made person-to-person calls to Colombo. The name they asked for, remembered the detective, belonged to Walcott's contact man there...
...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
...prayer has not been very effective. Red rail splitters frequently remove 20-yard stretches of track, once pirated a locomotive and sent it barreling into Saigon's Central Station, where it demolished two waiting rooms and killed ten sleeping soldiers. More damaging has been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only...
...other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice!" Police fired warning shots over the heads of the rioters, but no one was killed, though scores were injured in scuffles, and property damage was high...