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...Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with a new lifeline. Instead, it has become as useful as, well, Ian Smith. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood traveled the length of the Tazara to discover what had gone wrong...
...twice-weekly passenger express left on schedule, gliding smoothly out of the airy Chinese-built station at 6:40 p.m. Picking up speed (to a jaunty 30 m.p.h.), the train, imported from China along with everything else that went into making the Tazara railway, headed southwest toward its Zambian terminus, which, according to the timetable, lay 36 hours away...
Both Salas and Ranare seem to be out for more than a lark-or the winner-take-all $10 prize money (losers get a couple of free drinks). Salas, a railway shipping worker, comes to fight "to get the fears inside of me out." Ranare, who grew up in the South Bronx, came to Arizona a year ago to beat a heroin habit, which, happily, he did. "My idea," he says, "is to work out my frustrations from work and from the old lady." Though the club tries to match fighters evenly, any two people who want to fight each...
...million this year, and the trend is definitely downgrade. So perilous is its financial position that the House at last week's end was driving toward following the Senate's example and passing an emergency bill that would give Conrail another $1.3 billion. Even so, the U.S. Railway Association, the agency created by Congress to oversee Conrail, warned that an additional $2.6 billion probably will be needed. Daniel O'Neal Jr., chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, readily admits that Conrail has a rough road ahead. Says he: "I think Conrail is in a critical period right...
...labor contracts that it inherited into only 35, and it has gained union approval to cut the crew on a freight train from four to three. Says Charles Swin-burn, a Department of Transportation rail expert: "If you had taken the best railroad management in the country-the Southern Railway's, for instance-I don't know whether they would have done anything differently from the Conrail management...