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...fare is just 75 cents, but the ride could be worth your life. The public- transit buses that wind through southeast San Francisco have come to be known as the "Savage Lines." In the tough, low-income areas of Bayview/ Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill, coaches have been battered with rocks, bottles, lead pipes and gunfire. Passengers and drivers have been beaten and robbed by gangs of teenagers. Since December more than 70 bus attacks have been reported...
...traffickers. Residents say cracking down on the crack trade is the only way to halt the violence. The police are not hopeful. "Short of jailing large numbers of people, all we can do is just go out there and stem it as much as we can," says Liljedahl. The transit company has a different answer: when attacks become too frequent, buses are temporarily rerouted. So far, no passengers object...
...Austrian President did win a victory of sorts last week when the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported that a 1942 telegram that allegedly dispatched Yugoslav civilians to transit camps on Waldheim's orders was a likely forgery. But that must have been cold comfort to Waldheim, who has found that while he can try to forget his past, others will...
...chorus girl, Livingstone worked as a lab technician before entering politics. He became a folk hero for many Laborites in 1981, when he was elected leader of the Greater London Council. Livingstone turned the council, responsible for such matters as public transit, garbage collection and social welfare projects, into the biggest-spending local government Britain had ever seen. He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb. The council declared London a nuclear-free zone, earning plaudits...
...reads in full: "Very urgent. Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim of General Stahl's staff requests that 4,224 prisoners from Kozara, consisting mainly of women and children and about 15% of old men, be sent on the way: 3,514 to Grubisino Polje and 730 to Zemun." Both were transit camps, channeling people to labor or concentration camps in Germany and Norway. There was no explanation of why the total (4,224) differed from the sum of the two separate figures...