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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slowly the train of boxcars rolls to a halt at Kapikule, where Bulgaria becomes Turkey, and a flood of humanity spills out. Many kneel to kiss the ground. Others weep as they unload furniture, suitcases and sacks stuffed with possessions and pile them on the station platform. Military marches and battle cries of the Ottoman Empire blare from loudspeakers. A man shakes his fist at the distant Bulgarian hills and shouts, "Long live Turkey! This is the happiest day of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Before I realized what happened, it had already crashed," said one train victim interviewed on television. His nose was bandaged but he said he was otherwise unhurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toll Increases to 112 in Mexican Crash | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

...train, popularly known as "The Burro" because it stops at almost every station along the 900-mile route, is patronized almost entirely by poor Mexicans. It left Mazatlan at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, and had gone about 250 miles when the accident occurred at about 4 a.m. Police said they did not know how fast the train was going at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toll Increases to 112 in Mexican Crash | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

Javier Lopez, the Red Cross duty officer in Los Mochis, 60 miles northeast of the crash site, said most of those on the train had apparently been sleeping and that most of the victims drowned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toll Increases to 112 in Mexican Crash | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

...Suddenly you were on the runway with foam on your face and on your back," she said, adding that she probably would take the train back to New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trump Shuttle Crashes; No Injuries Reported | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

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