Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disemboweled as "collaborators" by the government troops, also fled to the hills. But when the government dropped leaflets and sent out helicopters equipped with loudspeakers urging the villagers to come home, they soon returned. Other villagers went out and recovered the classroom furniture. The government troops offered free transport to anyone who wanted to go north and live under Communism (there were no takers), began handing out cloth, cooking oil, medicines and tools...
...three experts--John R. Meyer '51, professor of Economics, Martin J. Wohl '53, lecturer on Public Administration, and Gerald Kraft, a transportation consultant--explained that their approach was more "rational and economical" than Peabody's. "It uses technologies best suited to performing specific urban transport tasks, rather than blindly extending into low density suburbs existing rail operational patterns geared to the needs of high density central cities," they explained...
When the government began to draft doctors, they staged a gigantic slowdown, demanding that the army requisition their cars or provide military transport, supply all equipment right down to little black bags. Since 80% of Belgium's anesthetists are women, and not subject to military service, many operations could not be performed despite the call-up. An army medical officer, one of some 20 flown in from Belgian forces in West Germany to help, declared: "I am ashamed of being a doctor after seeing what is going on here." At week's end, two doctors and a technician...
...tons of steel worth $2,250,000. What may repair some of the damage is a new awareness among labor leaders that the situation has got out of hand. Last week moderates in the Australian Council of Trade Unions vetoed a suggestion that the 1,000,000-member Transport Workers Union call a massive transport strike, and Council President Albert E. Monk seems determined to curb as many strikes as he can. But he is just as determined to win a 35-hour work week for the council's 1,200,000 members, who now work 40 hours...
...point last week, some 10,000 political prisoners had been rounded up -4,000 in Rio alone. In Guanabara Bay, a white luxury liner and grey navy transport were pressed into service as temporary jails. As the purges spread, the military clamped tight censorship on all news. Long-distance phone calls were monitored, government troops moved into wire service offices, edited stories and poked through files...