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Three tough guys stare daggers at one another in the prelude to a triangular gunfight. A pioneer woman carries water to men laying tracks for a railroad. A Jesuit priest contemplates a South American waterfall. G-men pursue gangsters across a bridge. A boy peeks through a projection-booth window to see a movie or through a keyhole to watch a beautiful woman slowly undress before her mirror...
Employees of some private companies have not fared as well in court. In Iowa this fall, a federal appellate court upheld the right of the Burlington Northern Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration...
...railroad station in the Angolan town of Dondo hasn't seen a train in years. Its windows are boarded up, its pale pink façade crumbling away; the local coffee trade that Portuguese colonialists founded long ago is a distant memory, victim of a civil war that lasted for 27 years. Dondo's fortunes, however, may be looking up. This month, work is scheduled to start on the local section of the line that links the town to the deep harbor at Luanda, Angola's capital. The work will be done by Chinese construction firms...
When the oilmen first called years ago, Eathorne, 66, never dreamed that the rolling grasslands his family has owned since 1944 would one day sprout 40 oil wells, 80 miles of pipeline and three railroad tracks. In recent years, he has set some house rules. In a "surface-use agreement," he stipulated that the workers leave their dogs at home so they wouldn't harass his 1,000 sheep and 500 head of cattle. But he and his wife had to build a new house on the far corner of the property to get away from the noise. They...
...arrested in Yanji. "They [the Chinese authorities] had been after me ever since 2002," Buck says. His sentence includes a ban from ever going back to China, but Buck says he still has a network of people in the country helping run the underground railroad, and he will now figure out ways to help them from afar, in part by raising money to house and feed North Korean refugees in China. "Every day in prison--457 days-I thought about the refugees and prayed to God to help them. My work is nowhere near finished...