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In another international incident related to Hampton Subway, the Canadian government, which owns eight subway cars that they sent from the Toronto subway line to the Hampton Subway line on an emergency basis, has threatened action against the United States if the cars are not paid for. COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S WEEKLY MESSAGE I have nothing but contempt for the government of Sweden for what they’ve done to the Hampton Subway line with their bogus doubledecker subway cars. There were a total of 14 double-decker cars we ordered. They delivered the first four. And on their maiden voyage, these four cars tore up the underside of the ceiling of our subway tunnels throughout the entire western half of our system. Though the ceilings have been repaired and these ruined cars removed — which we have no intention of paying for — there is now an entirely other matter that needs to be attended to. As part of the deal with Sweden, we shipped eight of our old single-level subway cars to them to get a better price on the building of the 14 new double-decker ones. Now, because the four dou-
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By Dan Rattiner Week of July 28-August 3 Riders: 15,442 Rider miles: 134,834 DOWN IN THE TUBE Ralph Nader was seen on the Westhampton Beach platform with Al Gore, Ross Perot and Jackie Mason, headed toward the Steven Spielberg drop at our Shinnecock Station with a whole lot of orphaned kids in tow. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Norma Biali, token clerk, is 43. KINGDOM OF BASINOBA DECLARES WAR ON U. S. As I am sure you know, the new Kingdom of Basinobo purchased 1.2 billion subway tokens from Hampton Subway for $1.2 billion to be used as the new currency for that African country. But one of the three ships carrying off 1/3 of the tokens sank as it went through the straits at Sag Harbor. The declaration of war came after the tiny Basinoba navy was denied permission to come into the straits so divers could try to recover the tokens sunk there. CANADA THREATENS TO BREAK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH U.S.
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ble-decker cars were ruined, we need the eight single-level cars back, which I am told are running today on the Gotenberg – Stockhom line. They refused. In a pinch, therefore, we got the Canadian government to sell us eight singlelevel cars from their Toronto subway system. And they are currently in use here. We have told Sweden that we will not pay Canada until Sweden pays us for the 14 cars they absconded. As we have gotten no response to this, we have also told them we will not pay for the remaining 10 double-decker subway cars because, as they were built to the same specifications as the first four, they are too tall for our tunnels. The threats we have received from the Government of Sweden over this we have passed on to our congressmen and also to Secretary Condoleezza Rice, who has told me that this government takes these actions from Sweden very seriously and is not ruling out military action against that country, although she hopes that diplomatic channels resolve this matter. She has also told Sweden that our full military alert status is in response to the declaration of war from Basinoba. It has nothing to do with them.
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