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According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...
...acre site of the old Victoria Barracks, located on the very edge of Hong Kong's commercial district, is prime real estate. Although its buildings are rundown and were abandoned by the British army in 1979, the parcel should have been worth about $250 million on the basis of similar recent real estate sales. But when the Hong Kong government offered it for sale this month, the bids fell "unacceptably" short, and the sale was postponed, victim to uncertainty over the future of the crown colony...
...Santa Maria basin is just 40 miles from the site of the 1969 disaster off Santa Barbara, where an oil well blew off a piece of the sea floor and coated miles of California beaches and thousands of sea birds with sticky crude. So far, environmentalists have not tried to block drilling activity at the new discovery site. Says John Zierold, chief lobbyist for the Sierra Club in California: "We have to await the results of some tests. We're not going to shoot from the hip on this...
...Sioux and Cheyenne. But the views were still important: the views of Jackson's Hole and the Tetons, or of the old Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site, for holiday and to bury pieces of bone and harness and indulge in the traditional recreation of soldiers visiting an old battlefield: to re-fight the engagement...
...State Board voted yesterday to "approve in full" Youville Hospital officials' plan to construct two new buildings on their Cambridge site, State Public Health Council members said...