Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the next few months more than 40 Chinese dissidents and their families who have languished hidden in Hong Kong with Zhang will at last be granted asylum in the West and secretly flown out of the territory. These departures will mark the end of the legendary "Yellowbird" underground railroad set up to rescue activists after the June 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. For now, activists negotiating for the dissidents say it's too early to feel relieved. "None of us will celebrate yet," says one. "These are people who have lived years, even decades, in fear, always watching...
...JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...
...nasty fight over a railroad? Not since the robber barons has the ownership of a set of tracks been so contested. The target: Conrail, the once tattered collection of government-owned freight lines that was created in 1976 and went public in 1987. CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail last month for more than $8 billion in cash and stock. Rival Norfolk Southern swiftly countered with a massive all-cash bid for Conrail of $10 billion, or $110 a share...
BORN: May 18, 1954, Lufkin EDUCATION: U of Texas, B.A., 1976; U of Houston, J.D., 1980 FAMILY: Wife, Charla; one child RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, 1986; Dallas County Democratic chairman, 1989-90 ADDRESS: 6335 Prospect Avenue, Dallas...
Clement is a conservative--he backed acts to streamline the Federal Railroad Administration and the FAA and cut the capital-gains tax--but he also supported Democratic budget-balancing measures and Clinton's veto of a $16.4 billion spending cut. He is one of the strongest Democrats in the state...