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Though Andropov's name is inextricably associated with the KGB in the minds of Westerners and Soviet citizens, he is in fact not a professional policeman. Until his political appointment to the KGB in 1967, Andropov's career had been in government or party service. The son of a railway worker, he was born in 1914 in the village of Nagutskoye in the northern Caucasus. At times a telegraph operator and boatman on the Volga River, Andropov began his political career at 22, when he became an organizer for the Young Communist League. After serving as a political commissar...
Rhodesia was ultimately strengthened in some ways by trade sanctions because the country was forced to develop its own industry to manufacture such essential products as railway cars and steel tubing. "In the decade from 1965 to 1975," writes Renwick, "the Rhodesian economy was transformed from virtually total dependence on the importation of manufactured goods in exchange for raw materials to a remarkable degree of self-sufficiency in most areas except oil and industrial plant and machinery." It was a spreading guerrilla war, rather than trade warfare, that finally forced the white regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith to step...
...heart of the dispute was the insistence of the engineers on preserving their traditional 15% to 20% pay advantage over other railworkers. Negotiations for a new contract for all 13 railway unions began in August 1981; although eleven of the 13 unions agreed on the terms, the talks broke down last July. Reagan invoked a 60-day cooling-off period and appointed a panel to make recommendations. In August the board suggested that the two holdout unions accept the 28.8% wage hike over 39 months already agreed to by the other unions, along with a no-strike pledge. The twelfth...
What a charming spot for a renaissance of old values. There are little green islands on the lake. An elegant white house sits at the base of a rock cliff on the western shore. In the evening, frogs croak, crickets chirp, and the freight trains of the Canadian National Railway clatter by on the way to Montreal, the loonlike hoot of the locomotive echoing in the woods as if rushing back in time...
Only when he was safely atop the Silverthorn Ice Corridor of 11,452-ft. Mount Athabasca in Alberta could Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 62, finally take a breather during his vacation. He has been on a two-week cross-country trip in a private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras...