Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assertion that all human knowledge is encodable in streams of zeros and ones?philosophically, that's very hard to swallow. In effect, the whole world is made to seem computable. This generates a kind of tunnel vision, where the only problems that seem legitimate are problems that can be put on a computer. There is a whole world of real problems, of human problems, which is essentially ignored...
...indefinite layoff. Company and union officials concede that most of these workers will not be recalled, even if the economy recovers. Says David Herlick of Woodhaven, Mich., a Ford worker who was laid off 15 months ago: "There's no light at the end of the tunnel. There's just a big iron gate...
Details of the incident are sketchy. Abdul Wadood Wafamal, first secretary in the Afghan embassy in New Delhi, would confirm only that a "gas tanker" had exploded in the tunnel. Without offering additional information on the accident, he argued against reports of enormous casualties. "We would have had to call for help internationally if such a disaster had occurred," said Wafamal. But Western diplomatic and military sources, citing reports from Kabul, and Afghan refugee leaders in New Delhi claim that a major tragedy did occur. One eyewitness, a refugee who gave his name only as Abdul, was riding...
According to some accounts, drivers of cars, trucks and buses evidently continued to enter the tunnel after the explosion. Soviet troops, fearing that the explosion might have been a rebel attack, reportedly closed off both ends with tanks and trapped uncounted victims inside. Some burned to death; others were killed by smoke and by carbon monoxide escaping from vehicles whose drivers kept their engines idling to stay warm in the freezing cold. The devastation was so great that afterward six trucks laden with bodies, mostly Soviet troops, reportedly were driven away from the tunnel...
...year-old tunnel is located on the heavily traveled Salang Highway, a principal military supply route linking Kabul with the southern Soviet republics. There have been rumors for the past two years that Afghan rebels planned to blow up the tunnel. Western military and diplomatic sources in Pakistan said that any sabotage that closed the tunnel for a long time could severely curtail delivery of military supplies to the 100,000 Soviet troops stationed in Afghanistan. For that reason, it is well guarded. An insurgent group called the Islamic Party belatedly claimed responsibility, but few diplomats took the pronouncement seriously...