Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, at least five fire-bomb attacks took place last week against commuter trains, and an explosion ripped apart the rail line at Soweto's Nancefield Station, preventing thousands of black officeworkers from reaching their jobs in Johannesburg. The violence grew out of a six-week-long strike by 16,000 black transport workers...
...Congress of South African Trade Unions, the black labor organization whose offices had previously been raided by police, last week won a court order against such harassment. But the next day police found the bodies of four black railway workers, who had been stabbed and burned, in the Johannesburg rail yards. A fifth body was discovered in Tembisa township, to the east of the city. White officials charged that the five had been killed by blacks for refusing to join the strike. Police once again raided the COSATU offices, this time armed with search warrants, and arrested twelve people...
...m.p.h. on a test track; a version carrying three passengers made it to 249 m.p.h. earlier this year. That beats any conventional rival, including Japan's celebrated bullet train, which goes as fast as 149 m.p.h., and the French TGV, which provides the world's fastest regularly scheduled rail service, at speeds of up to 186 m.p.h...
...Angeles: Metro Rail. Planned as the area's first rapid-transit system since the "red car" rail network was scrapped in the 1960s, the 20-mile, $4.5 billion subway is nonetheless considered extravagant. Construction began last fall on the first, 4.4-mile downtown segment, which will cost $1.25 billion, with $870 million coming from Washington. Opponents favor less costly projects, like surface railroads along existing freeways. One critical slogan: "Stop the Subway and Save Mass Transit." The highway bill gives L.A. another, more widely praised plum: 27 smaller projects, valued at $74 million, to improve gridlocked roads around the Port...
...Track, and that is where Steinbrenner threatened to "dump the little guinea bastard," as he referred to Cassini, if the designer dared get in his way during the race. Steinbrenner was miffed because Cassini, who was once Jacqueline Kennedy's White House couturier, had been given the favored, inside rail position to start that race, probably in deference to his age. Cassini is 73 years old. He is a charming little man who looks like he weighs about 110 lbs., and who has aged gracefully...