Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several members of the Council said city officials had not told them about the problem. Traffic and Parking Director George Teso refused to make public statements because of the possibility that he might be named in a lawsuit regarding the garage...
...cities in a concerted effort to bring down the tottering government of the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party (B.S.P.P.). To a large extent they had already succeeded. Burma's second largest city, Mandalay, was under the control of Buddhist monks: saffron-robed holy men, known as sanghas, were directing traffic. In Rangoon, the capital, the entire civil service had deserted the government. A new opposition leadership was working with students and monks to bring rice into the increasingly hungry city...
...killer virus has penetrated the country's electronic funds-transfer system, which is essential to the operation of the nation's banks. No stock- or commodity-exchange computer centers have crashed. No insurance-company rolls have been wiped out. No pension funds have had their records scrambled. No air-traffic-control systems have ground to a halt. And the U.S. military-defense system remains largely uncompromised, although there have been published reports of virus attacks at both...
...everywhere too. Ramps around Kingston airport were flung and crumpled like Tinkertoys. The causeway between Kingston and Manley Airport was flooded, and the whole island was left short of food and without safe drinking water. The airport control tower was battered out of commission, and until Thursday air traffic consisted only of military transports carrying relief supplies from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Jamaica's Caribbean neighbors. The hospital in Mandeville lost its roof, and the University Hospital of the West Indies in Mona was severely damaged. With water supplies contaminated, there is fear of an outbreak of cholera, dysentery...
Last week a man claiming to be the Baron showed up on a late-night television talk show. Disguised by a mask, he admitted making three low- altitude flights above the city. Claiming that he is frustrated and bored by air-traffic regulations, the man pledged that he would buzz the city a final time in coming weeks. Within 24 hours, the daily Le Monde reported that police sources had identified a prime suspect: Albert Maltret, 52, who was arrested in 1986 for landing a single-engine plane on the Champs Elysees. "It's not me," Maltret told Le Monde...