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PIPELINES. To move the projected volumes of coal, railroad lines must buy thousands of new hopper cars and locomotives and upgrade roadbeds and tracks. Rather than wait, several consortiums of mining companies have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument...
UNITA was said to be carrying out a desperate contingency plan-tearing up the Benguela rails and burying them in order to delay the M.P.L.A. from putting the railroad back in operation. That scheme would not only hamper Angola's economic recovery but also inflict more punishment on Zambia and Zaïre. Both countries have been strong UNITA supporters and depend heavily on the railroad for copper exports...
...singing./ Looks like the children that Moses led./ I heard the angels singing." The plaintive melody is a mythic signal, readily understood: she is the "Moses" who is leading her people out of bondage. Moments after Harriet's song has ended, the passengers join her on the Underground Railroad, moving North to freedom...
Meanwhile, Southern Railway conceded that it had paid for a Christmas visit by Agriculture Secretary Butz to the railroad's private resort near Charleston, S.C.-even though the Agriculture Department has filed petitions with the Interstate Commerce Commission protesting rate increases by Southern on farm products. Butz told the Associated Press that he had done nothing wrong, said he would repay part of the cost himself and defiantly added that, if asked, he would visit the resort again next Christmas...
...film by Steve Segall called "Red Ball Express" gets all caught up in trains. It marvelously anticipates what the spectator's mind expects to follow each mobile image. Railroad tracks cross and intertwine, creating squares and patterns and coils; wheels roll and tumble; all to the tune of Kentucky bluegrass fiddling. Another short, by Canadian Paul Driessen, features little and not-so-little green monsters, fishes, and manipulative humans--the creatures swallow each other in an endless progression of gulps and burps. Perhaps Driessen suffers from an underlying paranoia--there's always something bigger out there waiting, waiting...