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...billion over five years. Pena proposed collapsing 10 DOT divisions into three, reducing staff 12 percent by 1999 and privatizing several key functions. Under the plan, most of the department would be consolidated into an Intermodal Transportation Administration, which would assume the functions of highway, railway and other transit offices. Air traffic control would handled by a quasi-independent body outside the Department. Legal and accounting duplication would be eliminated. Pena will send a detailed plan by March to Congress, which must approve the changes...
...bureaucratic intransigence. The animals were an official present to Sweden from the chief of Pakistan's armed forces. Because Swedish law prohibits the direct import of horses from Asia, arrangements had been made to quarantine the animals in Estonia for six months. While the horses were in transit, Estonia changed its mind, and the animals were flown instead to Stockholm, where the Agriculture Ministry ordered them destroyed. ``It is awful,'' said a Stockholm resident. ``Imagine killing such beautiful living creatures for no reason...
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Officer John A. Cantella said he saw the youth jump a turnstile without paying the fare. Cantella ordered the teenager, a 16-year old student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, to leave the station...
...accused of firebombing a New York City subway in a scheme to terrorize and extort money from the transit authority loved the city and especially its transit system, his wife, said today in a press conference. Edward Leary "enjoyed the transit system -- he felt it was something that was a gift," his wife Marge Shaller said. A grand jury indicted Leary on several counts including attempted murder and assault. Leary faces a total of 45 counts of attempted murder and remains in critical but stable condition with severe burns covering half his body. Today his wife, who wore...
Police say a suspect in yesterday's firebombing of a crowded New York City subway train planned an underground terror spree to extort money from the city's transit authority. The man, 49-year-old Edward Leary of nearby Scotch Plains, N.J., was arrested in his hospital bed early today after he was found badly burned two stops from the disaster site and police discovered bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn...