Word: transition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Western journalists to visit one of Nkomo's camps in Zambia. Besides an estimated 10,000 fully trained guerrillas in Nkomo's army, hundreds more are arriving weekly by way of neighboring Botswana. The newcomers are screened and given some rudimentary training at a major transit camp in Zambia before being sent on to Angola or Eastern Europe for further instruction. Nkomo heatedly denies Rhodesian charges that the young blacks are forced to join his organization at gunpoint. "That's just nonsense," he says. "We have more people than we need or can cope with efficiently...
Dunster St., which has been closed to traffic since Monday, should be open to cars again tomorrow, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Inspector Mike A. Auriemma said yesterday...
According to Webster's dictionary, an alewife is a small North American fish, resembling a shad, or a woman who operates an ale house. In Massachusetts, however, Alewife is also the name of a parkway running through the western part of Somerville. That's where the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) is going to extend the Red Line from Harvard Square by 1982 or 1983, if everything goes according to schedule. Lucky for the Class of '82, things won't be too bad in the Square until March or April, when the heavy construction is scheduled to begin. But just...
...bulk of the Red Line project will be funded by the MBTA, supplemented by the Urban Mass Transit Association. Final costs for the project are expected to be in the millions, although no final figure has been estimated...
...which in turn creates higher profits. In the first six months earnings jumped 16.3%, and for the full year should hit a record $1 billion. This year's surge, says Eastern Air Lines President Frank Borman, the former astronaut, "has been above our wildest expectation. We have become mass transit, and this may be as revolutionary as the introduction of the jet engine itself...