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...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...
...tank, of 1950s vintage, belonged to the Egyptian army and had been transported to Baltimore on the U.S. barge Lash Atlantico on its way to Teledyne Continental Motors in Muskegon, Mich., for repairs and rebuilding. The driver parked the T-54 for more than a week while he went off in search of a special permit to transport the overweight load on Maryland's roads. In the end, police returned the guns, and the tank continued its decades-long voyage from Moscow to Muskegon...
...astronauts who have waited more than a decade to go on a space flight were disgruntled by Garn's mission. The Senator, however, has impressive flight credentials. The son of a World War I pilot, he began flying at 16. As a naval pilot Garn flew transport missions in Viet Nam. All told, he has logged some 10,000 hours of flying time--more than any of NASA's 90 active astronauts except Air Force Colonel Joseph Engle. Garn is also in superb physical condition; he carries a muscular 170 lbs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame...