Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Either way, security, or the lack of it, at the Athens airport has long been a concern. "There is no question that it has the weakest security of any major West European airport," says David Kyd of the International Air Transport Association. As a result, since 1982 several airlines, including TWA, have had their own supplemental screening systems. Four times during the past five years IATA officials have visited Athens to plead with the government to improve the situation. Greek officials claim they are scapegoats for U.S. frustration. Protests Transportation Minister Evangelos Kouloumbis: "The security is just as good...
...concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts and satellite scanners. "The Russians are sweating," declares Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab. "They used to be able to carry off all our technology by the truckload. Now we're making them pay more and take longer...
...episode was brief but embarrassing. Leaders of the British National Union of Railwaymen last week called a strike against London Regional Transport. LRT runs the city's underground subway system, on which about 2 million passengers daily depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon...
...country by land, sea or air. Many were stranded on clogged roads with little money and no food. Some were herded into a Lagos airport terminal normally used by pilgrims departing for Mecca. The refugees were told they would be sent to Apapa, the main port of Lagos, for transport home by ship...
...program makes a fair amount of sense. In practice, however, some of the 350,000 already resettled have fled their new homes, claiming that they were relocated against their will. Sometimes, they report, they were cultivating their fields when they were suddenly seized and flown south in Soviet transport aircraft; in the process, many families were torn apart. To make matters worse, resettled farmers frequently have not been provided with draft animals or farming tools or seeds. All the while, the resettlement project uses up funds and transport desperately needed to supply the hungry. "Tremendous resources are directed to resettlement...