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...booters had hospitably postponed the start of the game 80 minutes to allow the Princeton squad to regroup. A van carrying 12 of the Tigers crashed through a guard rail Friday in East Hartford, Conn., seriously injuring one player and stranding the others in Connecticut for the night...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Princeton Defense Nails Door on Booters, 1-0 | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

While Japanese and French experts provide safe rail travel at 100 and 236 m.p.h. [Oct. 5], Reaganomics cuts Amtrak, instead of searching for improved ways to move people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1981 | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...State Alexander Haig. "The growth of anti-American rhetoric here is an irreversible invitation to further action of this kind," commented the prestigious Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, which predicted that terrorist acts would continue. Indeed, one day after Kroesen's escape, two explosive devices were found on a rail spur leading to the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt. Said a police officer: "They would have blown up a train if it had passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Return of the Red Army Faction | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Bangkok has been far less successful in containing Communist insurgents in the deep south. In recent weeks, guerrillas there have blown up a railroad bridge, disrupted rail traffic to Malaysia and ambushed a police station. Unlike the northeast, where poor farmers were drawn to the Communists by promises of a better life, the south spawned guerrillas who concentrated their propaganda on government corruption. "The people in the south become Communists for revenge, not ideology," explains Uthai Hiruntoa, the Interior Ministry's director for rural development in the five southernmost provinces. "Fighting is intense today because the hatred is very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Peace Festival | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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