Word: rail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their campaign, the Somalis said, the guerrillas had cut the rail line linking the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa with the Red Sea port of Djibouti and had killed or captured 23,000 Ethiopian troops. The Somalis also accused the Ethiopians of burning villages and massacring hundreds of civilians during their retreat. By the end of August, vowed the Somali guerrillas, the entire region would be "liberated" and merged with the Somali Republic...
Although he achieved fame in the 1950s as one of England's Angry Young Men, Author Alan Sillitoe never lost his temper in his books. The working-class characters in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1960) did indeed rail at the upward immobility of the British class system; it was Sillitoe's cool precision in portraying them that made these fumings so hot to the touch. Sillitoe's restraint, his continued attention to the Nottinghamshire region of his own childhood, are quiet virtues that the noisy passage...
...Delays: minimal. Accessibility: good. Allow 40 min. to 1Y2 hr. for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($10 to $12, beware plun-derous drivers). City bus ($1.75) to Gare de 1'Est every 15 min. or Air France bus ($2.50) to Porte Maillot every 20 min. Rail trip ($ 1.75) to Gare du Nord every 15 min. Flow Through: smoothly futuristic. Spacious waiting lounges. Plentiful baggage carts. Sidewalk check-ins, or passengers take escalators from entrance to check-in counters, then the moving sidewalk up plastic tubes to departure floors. Boarding via moving sidewalk...
...clubhouse is strictly for winners. Foxboro has the best benches around, but Suffolk Downs has a nice grass infield where you can recline among the cigar butts and discarded tickets. Wherever you sit, be sure to bring binoculars. They allow you to catch the fix on the back rail, a key to enjoying an afternoon and evening of losing...
...Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some day from getting together and carving us up?" Last month Somalia-supported guerrillas operating inside southern Ethiopia blew up the Addis-Djibouti rail line in three places, closing it indefinitely. That was a serious blow to the economy of Djibouti, which depends on Ethiopia not only for customs and transit revenues but also for its fruit and vegetables. On the eve of independence, local markets were virtually bereft of produce...