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...incidents in the past month, no one−extraordinarily−has been killed. But as the risks and casualties have mounted (31 people injured so far), so has British ire. "Why don't they come out and fight?" cried one angry man as he was evacuated from a railroad station. "Why don't these people come out and face us man to man if they've got something...
...Africa these days, the situation is quite literally one of feast or famine. In a massive multi-nation relief effort, grain sacks are piled high in Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos, the chief railheads for the drought-desolated nations of Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali and Senegal. Their antiquated railroad networks cannot move grain quickly enough into the interior. The ongoing airlift offers the most plausible solution, but there are not enough aircraft. The result is that while mass famine has been averted over a 2,600-mi. strip stretching across the southern Sahara, many of the area...
...plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith who, they say, did not go round a bend for five years...
...their activities to tackle such issues as land use and energy policy. Now the courts have gone a step further by including declining rail service on the list of environmental concerns. Federal District Judge Marvin E. Frankel has ruled that the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot allow abandonment of any railroad service without showing that such an action does not "significantly affect the quality of the human environment...
Those arguments impressed the judge, who agreed that the curtailment or alteration of railroad routes-like the changing of the path of a river-should conform to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The decision could affect the current trend of wholesale abandonments of rail service; U.S. railroads have already submitted plans to stop service on more than 250 stretches of track in 40 states, with 100 more cutbacks contemplated...