Word: transport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of Wednesday's car bombing in Oklahoma City which left 31 people dead, 200 injured and 300 others missing, Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson issued bomb advisory notices to the Harvard community yesterday. And the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) closed the subway for an hour after receiving an anonymous bomb threat...
Understandably, few German experts have much sympathy with this attitude, though most realize that direct demands for restitution will simply be rejected. "It was by no means necessary to transport the artworks to the Soviet Union for conservation," protests Werner Schmidt, general director of the Dresden State Art Collections and chairman of the joint Russo-German commission deliberating on the mutual return of art loot. In 1955, when the Russians returned paintings to the Dresden Gallery (in communist East Germany), they made a huge, face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found...
...just north of Berlin, where he and other Soviet Army officers were billeted. By the dim light of a candle, he found several bulging portfolios of drawings and watercolors. Their names leaped out at him: Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Amazed at the discovery, Baldin begged his officers for transport space to carry this abandoned trove back to the Soviet Union-to no avail. There was no room on the trucks, and the brigade was pulling out in the morning...
...reward includes $2 million from the State Department and $1 million apiece from the Air Line Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association. The largest previous award was $2 million claimed in last month's arrest ofWorld Trade Center bombing suspect Ramzi Yousefin Pakistan...
...installed chemical weapons and 6,000 troops at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Defense Secretary William Perry told reporters today. On a six-day tour of the region, Perry warned that the military buildup could be used to block the Gulf shipping lanes that are used to transport half the world's oil. He is urging Arab allies to upgrade their defenses and improve ties with the U.S. military in the face of growing military arsenals in bothIran and Iraq. Perry has warned repeatedly in recent days ofIran's military stockpile, including anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, near...