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...will be an enormous undertaking: the random drug testing of almost every airline pilot, railroad engineer and truck driver in the U.S., a total of 4 million non-Government transportation workers. Rejecting widespread concerns about the constitutionality of such a move, the Transportation Department last week announced plans to require companies and municipalities involved in the transit business to begin testing their employees in December 1989. The ; workers will be screened for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines and phencyclidine (PCP). Said Transportation Secretary James Burnley: "The American people demand and expect a drug-free transportation system...
...services firm, agrees. "It's hit or miss. All the men I met couldn't accept intelligence in a woman or that she might be making more money than they were." In desperation she went to Personal Profiles. Her first six dates had "no chemistry," but then she met railroad engineer William Lloyd, 40. Both are Roman Catholics and avid environmentalists, shared beliefs that helped produce sparks, resulting in their marriage last April. Says Pamela: "Bill met all of my criteria...
...leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims she was coaxed into making a false confession by her father, who, she says, committed the crime in cahoots with her stepmother's sister. Whooo...
...everyone shops all the time in Flemington. The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt. Fathers of young children often elect to take a ride on the historic Black River and Western Railroad, an aging three-car train that rambles some eleven miles through the woodlands to Ringoes, N.J., and back five times...
Burnley said that in his own field of transportation, "far and away, the worst problem we have in the railroad industry is narcotics." He cited the Amtrak train disaster outside Washington, D.C., in which the operator later tested positive for drugs. Illegal drug use was a problem in 59 recent accidents, alcohol in six, he continued...