Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...car armed convoy that wound its way through Cologne's streets last week was bringing well-known Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, 62, home from his downtown office. Suddenly the blue Mercedes carrying Schleyer screeched to a halt in order to avoid crashing into a yellow sedan that was blocking half the street and a baby carriage that had rolled across the other half. Sensing danger, the driver of the convoy's second car pulled up behind Schleyer's auto. As three of the bodyguards jumped out, they and Schleyer's chauffeur were mowed down...
...deep trouble. The most serious accusation against him is, in effect, murder by proxy. He allegedly ordered his paramilitary Federal Security Force to get rid of a troublesome opposition politician, Ahmed Raza Kasuri. During the second of two attacks on Kasuri in 1974, gunmen sprayed the politician's car with bullets; they missed Kasuri but killed his father. According to government sources, five security-force officials have testified that they were acting on Bhutto's orders at the time...
...most Americans, the diesel engine calls to mind a smoke-belching locomotive or 20-ton truck. But in Europe, diesels also power some Mercedes sedans and Peugeots-and this week those cars will get a U.S. rival. General Motors will bring out the first U.S.-made diesel passenger car. It plans to offer the diesel as an optional engine on 50,000 Oldsmobile 88s and 98s in the 1978 model-year...
Three years of development have enabled Olds engineers to solve some other problems. A passenger who did not happen to notice the word diesel on the hood ornament or the rear of the car probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block...
...Four-car garage and we're still buildin...