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...Britain the editor of the Railway Gazette, Richard Hope, was suspected of passing on to the London Times a secret government report that revealed plans to phase out 60% of the present railway system. Hope soon discovered that both his home and office phones had been tapped, and it was only when he publicized the taps that the government announced that it was dropping the investigation...
...nature, the murder in the graveyard, Becky and Tom lost in the cave, even Huckleberry Finn's subversive restlessness-is truncated and flattened. The idea seems to be to avoid offending those modern-day Aunt Pollys and Widder Douglases who think, despite such recent good examples as The Railway Children and Sounder, that the term "family entertainment" can only be defined as a synonym for blandness...
...1880s, the Fenian movement boldly bombed the House of Commons. In 1903 the Irish waged another bombing campaign, and again, in 1939, they went on a 15-month spree of dynamiting elegant shops, theaters, mailboxes and railway cloakrooms. Joseph Conrad's protagonist in The Secret Agent schemed to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, just as the hero of a novel recently published in London, The Patriot Game, plans to blast the headquarters of the British secret service...
Paradoxically, Mitterrand comes from a conservative Roman Catholic background, and concedes that "my socialism did not come easily." One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars." When reproached for his "reactionary past," he replies: "I deem it more honorable to have evolved from right to left than vice versa." In spite of his impoverished beginnings, Mitterrand has gathered degrees in law and political science...
...Marseillaise, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs wondered why France bothers to maintain its presence in the territory. The same question, he reported, troubles some French officials. They rationalize that France's departure would almost certainly bring about a war for possession between Ethiopia, which uses an Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway link as an economic lifeline, and Somalia, which was the ancestral home of the Issas. As one official put it: "The problems we inherit by staying are not as bad as the problems we would cause by leaving...