Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Though often hellish for riders, New York City's subways have long been a heaven for panhandlers, who can enjoy a captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...
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About 35 miles south of Phnom Penh, the great throng ground to a temporary and unexplained halt, like a train whose engine had broken down. For several months, the Khmer Rouge did not seem to know what to do next. Some of the , evacuees grew ill and died. Others wandered away to unknown fates. Most were assigned to villages where they worked in return for food rations...
...Paul Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That's a good way to start a war," says Roberts...
...guerrillas were also hitting hard. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front killed three hostages. Another militant group carried the conflict beyond Kashmir for the first time by bombing a train near Bombay, injuring 35 people, as well as two New Delhi police stations, where four policemen were wounded...