Word: transport
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When Breslin's chair broke down an hour later, she was once again at the mercy of others. After telephoning a disabled-access taxi service, she had to wait nearly two hours. The driver charged $90 to transport her and Martinez to a wheelchair-repair shop across the bay. Strapped in her chair like furniture, Breslin rocked uncomfortably in the rear of the van with each high-speed freeway turn. A technician fixed her electric motor, and soon a friend arrived to help her get home. Such is the life of the disabled: determined, resourceful and, all too often, reliant...
...Either you believe there's a split between Milosevic and Karadzic and Mladic or you don't. I don't." Some diplomats in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from Serbia. At least two Western embassies in Belgrade...
...Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five...
Thus, following the U.N. Resolution, the Arab states and local Arab leaders went into high gear to secure their prediction that "any line of partition would be a line of fire and blood." A day after the U.N. General Assembly's resolution, the Arabs opened their attack on Jewish transport. They carried out raids and arson in outlying Jewish quarters in mixed-population towns...
TIME Magazine reports that acting on a tip from the Japanese government, the U.S. prepared to raid the cult's midtown Manhattan office in March, before the Tokyo subway attack. An Air Force C-141 transport plane loaded with federal agents took off from Andrews Air Force base, but the raid was stopped when a federal judge would not issue a search warrant. The Associated Press reported today that the receptionist at the office said there was nothing there to interest federal agents. "We have nothing chemical here. Even the cockroaches...