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Responding to a question, he said that if Congress would allow it he would use Amtrak funds to provide rail commuter service for Boston, New York, and Washington...
...several consortiums of mining companies have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument is before Congress, which is expected to pass a bill later this year granting the coal pipelines the right of eminent domain...
...Boston residents who campaigned against air and noise pollution caused by Logan Airport, and her support of Congressman Udall came after his strong condemnation of the decision to allow the Concorde to land in the United States, and his strong support for full federal support of a Northeast passenger rail system and mass transit...
Both the state and the library corporation have a vested interest in using the MBTA site, since the state spent $6 million to buy the site, and then spent another $20 million to relocate the MBTA rail yards and repair facilities...
Drafting Workers. The political ferment in Spain has been intensified by growing labor unrest. Some 250,000 workers in the banking, construction and metalworking industries have walked off their jobs to protest low wages. When postal and rail workers threatened to do the same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single...