Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pseudonyms, calling for calm. In controlled media, such messages are obviously suspect. Even so, they appear to mirror genuine feelings. Says one West German expert assigned to follow the Polish crisis: "When you have to stand in line for hours for food, then walk kilometers to work because of transport strikes, it gradually grinds you down. As the euphoria wears off, you begin to realize that the system is here to stay and that perhaps a more moderate approach is the answer, because then there is less chance of hard repression...
...troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other vehicles. These armored combat forces also include communications and logistical units and are backed up by an air force that has more than 200 MiG-21s, MiG-23s and An8 and An-12 transport planes...
...Baltic seaport of Gdansk, sirens wailed to signal the start of a four-hour "warning strike" that interrupted public transport and shut down more than 800 plants. In Warsaw, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered defiantly over idle buses and streetcars as drivers joined workers from some 60 local factories and offices in a related half-day stoppage. On the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, 140 miles northwest of the capital, police turned back columns of angry tractor drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers...
...Salvador pending the outcome of an investigation by a Salvadoran commission into the murders of four American missionaries last month. Despite the lack of evidence that any investigation was even going forward, Washington moved swiftly to resume $5 million in nonlethal matériel-jeeps, trucks and transport helicopters, with U.S. technicians to maintain them...
...inaccessibility of a toilet; Renata Adler's Brownstone, tartly amusing observations from a Manhattan building; and Woody Allen's brilliantly executed The Kugelmass Episode. In search of a love affair, an unhappily married humanities professor from City College hooks up with a magician with the power to transport people into the novel of their choice. Professor Kugelmass chooses Madame Bovary and makes repeated visits to Yonville for trysts with Emma. The miracle has side effects. Notes one scholar after rereading Flaubert's masterpiece: "I cannot get my mind around this. First a strange character named Kugelmass...