Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, one-third of Iran's imports still travel through Soviet territory and, with its biggest port, Khorramshahr, closed, Iran is dependent on Soviet rail transport. The Soviets could retaliate by stemming those imports, courting the Mujahedin guerrillas or increasing their already considerable supply of sophisticated arms to Iraq. Soviet KGB agents from nearby Soviet Azerbaijan have reportedly infiltrated Iran to replace the agents who were arrested...
...where she helped prepare an economic handbook of the Pacific. "The Japanese militarist/fascist movement was getting very hot and IPR wanted to encourage the liberal Japanese who were still holding on," the historian recalls. The situation looked bleak, however, and in 1935. Tuchman came home--via the trans-Siberian rail-road...
...temple. "If you don't do this," the dealer said, nodding toward four neat rows of cocaine gleaming on a round mirror, "I'll kill you." So Tarver, an undercover narcotics officer on the Houston police force, leaned over the old oak desk and snorted his first "rail" of coke. The high was a revelation, one Tarver still remembers with vivid longing...
Cambridge Police Sergeant Joseph McSweeney said last night that the train's wheels apparently did not touch the woman, adding that she did not come into contact with the track's electrified third rail. She was found under the train's second...
...program, which Harrington delineated in this 45-minute talk, stresses the need for full-employment. His own proposals include the rebuilding of the nation's passenger rail system with public funds and public support for companies which create jobs by moving back to depressed industrial centers like Detroit. St. Louis and Cleveland...