Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deux-Eglises, where De Gaulle attended Mass. The idea was discarded after the plotters realized that the first person to receive a Host would keel over dead and give the scheme away. And there was no way to guarantee that De Gaulle would be first at the Communion rail...
Instead, he has relied on existing rail lines that pass through Portuguese territory and on the highway northeast to Tanzania. The blockade is forcing Zambia to pay an extra $150 million in import-export costs, and it has led to a few shortages. "Luxury living has been given its marching orders," says Kaunda...
Complicating the return of the prisoners is the fact that both India and Pakistan in recent weeks have been ravaged by the worst floods in decades. Rail traffic has been disrupted, bridges have been washed away and highways made impassable. Because of the distances involved, the Bengalis and Biharis will have to be transported by sea and airlifts. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, whose office spearheaded the international aid effort for the 10,000,000 Bengali refugees who fled to India during the war, will very likely oversee the exchange. Substantial funds will...
Behind such odd behavior lay a sudden, pinching shortage of newsprint, the rough, lightweight paper that is daily journalism's staff of life. Around 65% of the newsprint consumed in the U.S. comes from Canada, where a nationwide rail strike last week brought major deliveries to the U.S. to a halt. That only dramatized older problems. A wet spring hampered logging operations this year, and summer strikes at many of Canada's major paper mills have reduced production from 28,000 to 22,000 tons daily...
...beginning the following year, a portion of the highway fund will be freed for mass transit. In fiscal 1975, $200 million will be available to metropolitan transit systems exclusively for the purchase of buses. In 1976 cities will have the option of spending $800 million on mass transit, including rail systems...