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Radical unrest has largely subsided in West Germany, but the decree still technically covers all of the country's 3.5 million public service job holders, including railway workers, garbage men and even gravediggers as well as bureaucrats and school teachers...
...Mexican state of Sonora was a sea of straw-colored Stetsons. Campaign placards floated above the farmers, providing a little shade from the intense noonday sun. A psychedelic rock band with gigantic amplifiers competed with ranchero singers, backed by trumpets and violins, across the square. As the din crescendoed, railway workers forming a canyon through the crowd swung their matracas (rattles) wildly. With hand stretched high in salute, a robust man in a white guayabera (tropical shirt) jogged up to the speaker's platform. The crowd broke into a roar: " Viva Lopez Portillo...
...have apparently been successful in quieting the area-especially since Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko closed his border with Cabinda after Luanda protested that supplies were being funneled to the rebels. The rebel problem is more persistent in the south, where Cubans are also guarding the Benguela railway. Running clear across central Angola, the railway is difficult to defend against sabotage. The line has been blown up in a dozen places in recent weeks; three locomotives have been destroyed by saboteurs of Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) who simply loosened...
Then there was Kissinger's visit to Victoria Falls. Walking out onto the railway bridge that spans the gorge below the spectacular cataract and straddles the borders of Zambia and Rhodesia, the Secretary stepped across a white line onto Rhodesian territory, then quipped, "At least now I know what the issues look like." The gesture, coming on the heels of a blast at Kissinger from Rhodesia's Ian Smith for not visiting Salisbury before criticizing his government, took on a slightly surreal quality when it turned out that it had all been prearranged two weeks before by Washington...
...politicians might force Con-Rail to keep unprofitable segments of line in service. Then there are labor difficulties. By refusing to give up archaic rules and procedures, railroad unions have aborted a planned $66 million sale of almost 2,700 miles of track to the profitable Southern and Chessie railway systems, thus saddling ConRail with a bigger system than it wanted. But for all ConRail's troubles, there is no present alternative to it: no one has been able to think of a better way to save the Northeast's railroads...