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...worst rail disaster in Portugal's history. At 2:40 p.m. last Wednesday, the seven-coach Sud Express, carrying hundreds of Portuguese emigrant workers, pulled out of the main station at Oporto, on Portugal's Atlantic coast, and headed east, destination Paris. Two hours later, a westbound local rumbled out of the Guarda station, some 80 miles southeast of Oporto, and sped toward its final destination, the city of Coimbra. But a fatal miscalculation, which railway officials later attributed to "human error," permitted the two trains to pursue their opposing courses along the same track...
...warrior star, however, has captured the imagination of many others. Says Tom Gehrels, an astronomer with the University of Arizona: "When I heard the theory, I knew in my heart it was right." Indeed, Gehrels immediately hopped on a westbound plane to try to persuade Muller to let him help search for the companion. But Muller's own telescopic dissection of 5,000 stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are candidates for being Nemesis was already under way, and there was no need for Gehrels' help. So far, Muller has photographed nearly all the target stars once and is preparing...
...skyjackings steered dozens of planes to Cuba. The motive now, as it often was then, is homesickness. Last week six commercial U.S. airliners were hijacked and forced to fly to Havana, apparently by Cuban refugees who had come to the U.S. on the recent Freedom Flotilla. First, a Key Westbound Air Florida 737 with 33 people aboard was commandeered by a Spanish-speaking man wielding a "bomb" that turned out to be a box containing a bar of soap. Next, another Air Florida 737, headed from Key West to Miami with 74 aboard, was seized by seven passengers who threatened...
...break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas, we have to trade drivers with the westbound hip pie bus. Dave, the night driver, has to get home to Portland. He passes a tequila bottle around as he leaves. "Well folks, it was really organic." Sniffs his replacement: "Smells kind of moldy in here." Very true...
Traffic, normally accommodated by three lanes in either direction, will be channeled into the westbound side only, while the other section is being repaired. The eastbound side will then be opened for traffic and work will begin on the westbound side...