Word: transport
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Residents of Miamisburg, Ohio, found last week that they couldn't go home again after all. Early in the week 15,000 of them were evacuated when 15 cars of a 44-car transport train derailed, causing a tanker filled with phosphorus to explode and spew a plume of noxious white smoke over the small city (pop. 18,000) ten miles southwest of Dayton. Local hospitals treated some 300 people for respiratory problems and eye irritations...
...contras. The extent of the military escalation is not clear. U.S. intelligence sources report that Sandinista troops have begun to mass across the border from the Honduran bases where 10,000 to 15,000 contras are encamped. Military exercises now appear to center on the Soviet-built attack and transport helicopters that have proved to be the most effective weapons against the contras. Analysts believe that the Sandinista army may now have as many as 45 of the aircraft, many of them delivered in recent months. The newest arrivals are Mi-17s, advanced transport helicopters that can be equipped with...
...measure is longer on sticks than carrots. If adopted by the Senate, it would immediately provide $30 million for nonlethal supplies and begin payment of $70 million in military aid in September. The money, to be used for badly needed training, transport and communications equipment, would be released in installments if the President certifies--and a congressional panel concurs --that peace negotiations were stalemated. In addition, unspecified "heavy weapons" included in the package cannot be delivered until February of next year. Though the Pentagon has not provided details, these weapons may include shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles...
...party. Other tabs: $19,971 for long-distance calls, $18,952 for clothing (including 3,500 for men's socks, belts, underwear) and $10,555 for toothpaste, soap, beauty aids. Hoping to spare U.S. taxpayers such outlays, the subcommittee urged that the U.S. Government--which spent $450,813 to transport Marcos and the others to "safe haven"--demand reimbursement for the personal bills...
...make calls at the public phone booths and send telegrams. Suddenly the morning routine was shattered by an explosion that echoed throughout the downtown area of the capital. Two floors of the three-story structure collapsed. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage for survivors, police commandeered cars to transport the wounded to hospitals. Twelve people died and more than 100 were injured in the bombing...