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...main station at Oporto, on Portugal's Atlantic coast, and headed east, destination Paris. Two hours later, a westbound local rumbled out of the Guarda station, some 80 miles southeast of Oporto, and sped toward its final destination, the city of Coimbra. But a fatal miscalculation, which railway officials later attributed to "human error," permitted the two trains to pursue their opposing courses along the same track...
Puzzled, F. Polyak, the factory director, contacted the Moscow railway department, through whose territory the missing freight should have passed. No luck. Next, Polyak asked the South Western railway directorate, only to be told to get in touch with its Belorussian equivalent. The reply there: check with Moscow. Finally, Polyak queried the central search section of the Rail Ministry itself. He was informed that "it was not possible to do anything" because the shipment documents had routinely been destroyed after a year. No matter that the train had left less than a year before. Said Pravda: "Even Sherlock Holmes from...
...high road. But on March 11, when Jackson was arrested in front of the South African embassy in Washington, he delivered a short speech which he had planned before his arrest there. Jackson called for a boycott on Westinghouse Co. for its part in constructing the segregated African railway system. It so happens that during the same period, according to a report published by syndicated columnists Evans and Novak, his half-brother, multimillionaire businessman Noah Robinson, had written several rather threatening letter to Westinghouse in an attempt to capture a local transportation contract for his cement company...
Like other local arts groups, the Underground Railway Theatre each season searches for new audiences. For lack of larger, affordable places, the Indo-Asian puppeteer group does a lot of performing at churches and schools...
...latest missile hardware. Actually, most of the data have been known for some time. While the Soviets have so far stored their SS-X-24s in "garages" easily detectable by U.S. spy satellites, they are experimenting with a mobile version that can be raised and fired from a railway launcher disguised to look like part of an ordinary freight train. The smaller SS-X-25, which has a single warhead comparable to the proposed U.S. Midgetman, will be transported and launched from flatbed trucks...