Word: sud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prove to be the worst rail disaster in Portugal's history. At 2:40 p.m. last Wednesday, the seven-coach Sud Express, carrying hundreds of Portuguese emigrant workers, pulled out of the 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...
...evening when the sleek blue Alfa Romeo pulled up before the large two-story house at 20 Via Sud-africa in a prosperous section of Rome...