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...heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more militant locals were sounding almost repentant. The Warsaw branch said talk of a general strike had been a "mistake"-despite the fact that the workers' pressure won the release of two imprisoned Solidarity sympathizers. Similarly, leaders of the railway workers said it had been an "error" to shut down commuter lines in Gdansk and Warsaw several weeks...
...mood to pussyfoot. In two towns last week they occupied government offices. Textile employees also walked off the job in Lodz, and pay disputes interrupted operations at a reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home...
...Project 571." The indictment alleges that Lin, who was then Mao's official heir, plotted to kill the Great Helmsman while he was on an inspection tour of southern China. The plan was to attack Mao's special train "with flame throwers and bazookas, to dynamite the railway bridge [over which the train was to pass], bomb the train from the air, blow up the oil depot near the train stop in Shanghai, and then assassinate the Chairman in the ensuing commotion." The indictment sheds no light on how the Great Helmsman, whose improbable code name...
...four-volume edition, 102 were British. This reflected the insular judgment of the founding editor, a nonmusician named George Grove, one of those versatile achievers of whom the Victorian Age was justly proud. Sir George, a civil engineer, built lighthouses in Jamaica and Bermuda and worked on the British railway system. He was a self-taught Bible and music scholar who in 1852 became secretary of the Crystal Palace, a concert and exhibition hall. He wrote program notes and served as a founder and director of the Royal College of Music...
...escalator on a second-floor landing; it killed nine people and wounded 81. Fleets of ambulances ferried the wounded to hospitals. Police and soldiers cordoned off the area. Top public security and army officers converged on the scene, along with Peking's mayor and the minister of railways. At first government spokesmen called it an accident. But when the official New China News Agency finally reported the incident the following day, it announced that "the blast was caused by an explosive charge brought into the railway station by an unknown person." Thus it raised the possibility...