Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, large trucks must exit the Mass Pike extension before they reach the tunnel which travels under the Prudential Building, said Edward King. Community Affairs Director of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority...
...Allston-Cambridge exit is the last possible exit before the tunnel. This results in some trucks carrying hazardous materials passing through Cambridge on their way to refineries in Revere and Everett, a staff member of the Committee on Public Safety said...
...spokesman said that Sovern and the strikers did not discuss the question of divestment of the blockade. The blockade has resulted in the cancellation of a number of classes which must in Hamilton Hall, and forced the various deans who work there to enter through a dingy under ground tunnel from adjacent Kent Hall...
...link between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the Salang Highway is the primary resupply artery for the 115,000 Soviet troops battling mujahedin resistance fighters in Afghanistan. Three and a half years ago, hundreds of Soviet soldiers were said to have perished inside the highway's 1.7-mile-long tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains, following a collision of vehicles in a military convoy. Last week Western diplomatic sources reported that the same area was the scene of a bloody new calamity for Soviet and Afghanistan government forces...
...took place at Ollang, a hamlet three miles south of the tunnel and 34 miles north of Kabul, the capital, as Soviet and Afghan troops were unloading from a convoy to mount an antiguerrilla operation. According to the reports, a time bomb apparently placed in one of the vehicles by a mujahedin sympathizer exploded, starting a fire that engulfed several tanker trucks. In the ensuing confusion, resistance fighters attacked and reportedly killed some 400 Soviet and Afghan soldiers and destroyed 80 vehicles...