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...Soviets constantly harass the 30-odd American correspondents in Russia, bugging their guarded compounds and occasionally trying to set them up in compromising circumstances with a photographer nearby. The Soviets limit the number of correspondents who speak Russian, and they enforce quirky rules (no photos of bridges, ports, railway junctions, men in uniform, police stations or military installations are allowed...
...dining room for all M.P.s will soon be built, and all will be allowed to use the previously "whites-only" sporting club in the Newlands section of Cape Town. An other change: Indian M.P.s traveling to and from Parliament will be permitted to ride in the same railway cars as whites. Otherwise, racial separation remains the rule on the country's railroads...
...known to write paeans to the Rockies). If any nation had been planning to violate Swiss neutrality, reading La Place de la Concorde Suisse would be enough to make them scrap their battle plans and figure out another way to get through central Europe. Every bridge and railway track and alpine tunnel is mined and ready to blow up whenever needed. The army is scheduled to go into full mobilization in 48 hours. In practice, it rarely taker half that long. And, needless to add, the Swiss have prepared for nuclear attack with the most complete array of shelters...
...street near a Tehran railway station was a shambles: blackened cars, shattered glass, women in black chadors weeping as volunteers carried away the wounded. A bomb had exploded during the morning rush hour, killing 18 people and wounding some 300 others. It was the most serious terrorist bombing in Tehran since 1982, when more than 60 people were killed in an explosion at the central telephone and telecommunications center. Two callers to news agencies claimed responsibility for the latest action: the Arya group, a Paris-based collection of exiles who want to restore the Pahlavi monarchy, and a spokesman...
...direct result of Stalin's enforced collectivization. Though Herbst may have been shielded from the grislier effects of the mass starvation that cost 6 million peasant lives, she could not have failed to see what other travelers were reporting: hordes of hollow-eyed families begging at every railway station. The only work Herbst published at the time about her experience was a piece in the New Republic. The description of a writers' conference did not mention a shortage of food, only a plenitude of books...