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...support have been withdrawn. The full extent of South African assistance may never be known. Before the pullback, South Africans kept popping up in the strangest places, on the remotest roads. Last week it was different. 'You see,' quipped a UNITA guide on a walk through the railroad junction of Lumege, 'there are no white Angolans up here.' As it happened, if the 'white Angolans'-UNlTA's euphemism for the South Africans-had been around, Lumege might not have fallen the next...
...much of Wriston's wit seems funny in print: the effect of his remarks depends heavily on the arched eyebrow and quizzical expression accompanying them-and on a thorough knowledge of the context. Discussing the Penn Central's default on bank loans, he once quipped that the railroad's management "couldn't be equated with Boy Scouts"-a crack that can be fully appreciated only by someone who knows that the line's officers and directors agreed to an out-of-court settlement on shareholders' charges of fiscal mismanagement. Faced once by contradictory accusations...
Bupp, the lead-off witness, termed nuclear power "the most important attempt to modernize society since the railroad," but he stressed that it depends on several unproven assumptions...
...Services. Two Frenchmen and I went into France to help organize, arm and supply the Maquis [France's anti-Nazi Resistance fighters]. I also went up to [Nazi-occupied] Norway with a small team. We operated on our own up in the hills, coming down to blow up railroad lines...
...Army railroad engineers were called in to operate some of the idled trains. The fledgling Cabinet of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro threatened to draft the strikers into the armed forces, thus making them liable for courts-martial if they disobeyed back-to-work orders. At week's end the subway workers settled for an immediate $455 raise and a promise of further negotiations, but they could go out again...