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...life back together, but without much success. His girlfriend during the campaign, the first woman he had been close to since college, decides to marry her old boyfriend. He feels alienated from his contemporaries in Richmond, and so leaves. As the novel ends, he finally falls asleep on a northbound train...
...bombed-out rubble of an Ulster customs station. This ruined building and others like it on cross-border roadways have been blasted so many times that the British have abandoned both the shelters and any systematic policing of cross-border traffic. Five miles from the border, along a northbound country road, graffiti in large letters on a stone wall declare what is already apparent: THIS IS I.R.A. TERRITORY. BRITISH...
Scarcely three hours after Sadat's convoy sailed through, the first five merchant ships-Kuwaiti, Greek, Chinese, Russian and Yugoslav-moved into the waterway that Sadat has melodramatically described as "a hostage for peace." At the Bitter Lakes, they met the first northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after...
...Aviv's Lod Airport that cost 26 lives. Astonishingly, Amsterdam airport authorities had been tipped off beforehand by the Israeli secret service that a skyjacking attempt might be imminent, but they took no special precautions. "We do spot checks sometimes," said an airport policeman, "but not on these northbound flights...
...Only two days before, a southbound train had entered one end of the mile-long Vierzy tunnel 60 miles northeast of Paris, at the same time as a northbound train roared in from the other end. Unknown to either engineer, part of the tunnel's roof had fallen in. The two trains hit the rockfall, which acted like a trampoline, hurtling them up to the roof at 60 m.p.h.; cars at the rear telescoped into a mass of tangled metal. Rescue workers braved the possibility that more of the darkened tunnel's roof might collapse and worked with...