Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wiesel sharply criticized those who did nothing to stop the Holocaust, including the American government, who he pointed out could have made the decision to Lomb the rail tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau...
...often that we use our space on this page for praise. Staff editorials that rail against injustice or call for sweeping reform are much more common. But today we do have something positive to talk about. Last week, the University announced that admission to this year's Harvard-Dartmouth game would be free for Harvard students...
...more on notices recently posted by Amtrak announcing its intention to end direct service on the 90-mile branch line that includes Hyder and Phoenix. The sabotage, went the theory, could have been the revenge of a soon-to-be-jobless railroad worker. But that hypothesis, too, has flaws: rail-union officials say dropping the Phoenix loop would be unlikely to jeopardize the jobs of Amtrak or Southern Pacific workers. Also, Amtrak has postponed eliminating the branch pending upcoming shifts in the industry...
...Waco and the siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section of the track. Two men were briefly detained and questioned, but were cleared of any involvement in the incident...
...mile exclusion zone at Mururoa, the South Pacific atoll where France plans to test nuclear bombs. Light wind. Half-moon. Waves from a far-off storm swell under La Rebaude, a broken-engined, radio-dead ketch owned by Greenpeace. The crew hands two black-painted sea kayaks over the rail. They are then tethered to a Zodiac inflatable boat already pitching in the water...