Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appear on a checklist of those leaving. This year companies bearing the Turkish faithful home have so far been forced to pay some 200,000 riyal ($54,000) for no-shows. The trouble is, almost all of them were probably among the 1,426 killed in the July 2 tunnel disaster. The Turkish government is complaining that Saudi officials hastily interred many of the victims in mass graves without identifying them; since no death certificates were issued, it was impossible to prove to authorities that people were not going out of the country because they had been buried...
...throngs of the faithful, clad in traditional terry-cloth robes, crossed a pedestrian bridge in Mina, a railing gave way under the pressure. Seven worshipers plunged 8 meters, smashing into even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according...
...hajj season has become more unmanageable as the Islamic revival and the increased affordability of air tickets have swelled the annual ranks of pilgrims to 2 million or more. To handle the deluge, the Saudi government is investing $15 billion in infrastructure projects, including the ill-fated bridge and tunnel...
...Berlin in 1955, when the cold war was in full swing. The innocent of the title is Leonard Marnham, 25, a British post-office technician who is drafted into an undercover operation in which the allies are cooperating. And undercover is the accurate word; they are digging a tunnel in the Russian sector to pick up Soviet signals. Leonard loves his work. After living a cramped life in Tottenham, he relishes the rooms "big as meadows" in his government-issue flat and the hip manners of his co-workers. He soon learns that "you did not speak to people unless...
...young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...