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...Department of Transportation Railway Administration will conduct an investigation of the causes of the accident, Phil Gibbons, a spokesman for the agency, said yesterday...
...rest of Europe ended up adopting the same means to frustrate France's expansionary ends. National mobilization took the very decision of war and peace out of the hands of European leaders in August 1914; once the go-ahead for mobilization reached the countryside, and soldiers gathered at railway depots, the various nations-in-arms had little choice but to fight. The ideology of national mobilization tends to foster a feeling of security; however, it has also historically promoted military adventurism, and even the kind of expansionary nationalism dimly remembered today as cries for "lebensraum...
Confidence in Cabrillo's chance of survival is not so easily maintained. Slaving in his office, Eldorado becomes obsessed with his imaginary network. Derived from guidebooks and railway timetables, the false messages flow to Madrid and thence to Berlin with "authentic" reports on everything from British re search on light alloys to homosexuality in the submarine service. Luis comes closer and closer to a Mauser slug in the chest. In real life, and most fiction, he would be cheaply expendable. Here he is not, because the rise of Luis from Franco's Most Wanted list to nouveau millionaire...
...organized group led by J. Chris Brown (the head of Carter's successful '76 effort) working since last summer. He has the support of Governor Hugh Gallen and a majority of the state legislators. He has already pumped Federal grants into the state for highway and railway improvements. In addition, there are hints that the hostages might be returned in time for the New Hampshire race. If Carter can once again turn a primary into a referendum on his Presidency...
...committed to peaceful relations with the new Zimbabwe regime regardless of the election's outcome. Machel underscored that commitment last week by reopening his border to Rhodesia for the first time since 1976. Within days, Rhodesians were eating prawns and butterfish in the port of Beira, while Mozambican railway and trade officials were flying to Salisbury to begin re-establishing commercial ties...