Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Transit planners say the expansions could increase total system ridership involving South Station from the current level of 29,000 a day to 52,109 in the year 2000. Ridership at North Station is expected to increase by 38 percent, to 15,737 daily by the year...
MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary told the Boston Sunday Globe that transit officials want to proceed carefully with the expansion...
...that the big Christmas films have made their mint, each of these former reliables tiptoes into town with a new movie designed not to stir a sensation but to fill booking dates. Pryor's film, Moving, is a comedy about a mass-transit engineer who loses his job, relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back...
...program, known as "Read, Ride, Return," is a joint effort of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners...