Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When work on the Vulcan is completed next month, the Navy will be able to pipe aboard the first women crew members ever to serve on its ocean-going vessels (other than a transport or hospital ship). The service had been barred by law from so using women until this summer, when a federal district court ruled that sex cannot be used as a criterion to prevent volunteers from serving on combat-related vessels. To comply with this ruling, the Navy is refitting the Vulcan and four other support ships to take on 16 female officers and 375 enlisted women...
...Line Alert, a coalition of three Cambridge resident groups, filed Wednesday in federal district court to ask for an injunction against construction activities by the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA). The success of this suit may hinge on the city's role in the legal battle...
...railroads. Though a healthy rail system is more essential than ever to save gasoline and carry coal, the industry has been held back for years by overregulation by the ICC, which keeps rates high in order to protect inefficient lines-and thus often makes the railroads uncompetitive with rival transport systems...
Since the onset of the Industrial Age and mass production, technology has been used to create an independent man-made community which exploits the environment for its own material profit. These tools--railroads to transport us, toilets to dispose of our waste, electrical power plants to provide fuel--are totally self-serving and often usurp the natural resources on which all life depends...
...prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some 1,600 others are awaiting transport via the Angola airline TAAG. A cargo ship is being readied to return the possessions they brought with them in their desperate flight three years...