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Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority management authorities earlier this week denied allegations by the Carmen's Union that over half of the Red Line cars running are unsafe...
...consequences of lightness are several. Moral responsibility does not exist, for "how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit?" History loses much of its reality. Talking of Robespierre, the narrator reveals that "the bloody years of the Revolution have turned into mere words, theories, and discussions, have become lighter than feathers, frightening no one." The present day is hardly more serious...
...Asian nations have been afflicted with heroin. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are largely free of hard drugs, thanks to firm law enforcement and strongly held traditional values. China, Indonesia and the Philippines serve primarily as transit points for shipment to the U.S. and Europe. Singapore, with its draconian antidrug laws, honest and efficient police force and intensive rehabilitation programs, reports a decline in heroin addiction...
Germans against seeking asylum in West German diplomatic missions. Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...
...cemetery plot. Into and beyond the grave, she relives her days feeding and changing her aged mother, dominating the mother with her dogged servitude, then slipping into reverie to imagine her self the sad heroine of a gothic novel. Is she mad? Is she dead? Perhaps both, or in transit between the two states, like the old woman Whitelaw plays in Rockaby. A child-dotard in her cradle-rocker, a near relative of Psycho's Mother Bates, she lullabies herself to death with the sound of her own (offstage) voice, interrupting the melancholy monologue only for four plaintive cries...