Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letelier died instantly, his legs blown off. Gobbets of flesh and blood-soaked upholstery were flung throughout the car's interior. A metal fragment slashed the neck of Letelier's front-seat companion, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, 25, severing her carotid artery. She drowned in her own blood. Her husband, Michael Moffitt, 25, who had been sitting in the back seat, somehow escaped almost uninjured...
...killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated by a bomb in his car in Buenos Aires. In October 1975, Christian Democratic Leader Bernardo Leighton, who irritated the regime by calling, as Letelier had, for a united opposition against it, was wounded by gunmen in Rome...
Lhasa, "Place of the Gods," is two hours distant by car. The dirt approach road skirts willows and irrigated fields plowed by peasants steering teams of black yaks. The closer we came to Lhasa, the more Chinese faces we saw-and the more signs of the political fervor they brought with them, incongruously, to this high, remote corner of the world. A red-lettered slogan on a farmhouse wall commanded in both Chinese and Tibetan script: "Never forget class struggle is the key link...
Noiseless Shift. TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold last week drove a Ford van equipped with a DDE engine. His report: "If you didn't know the cutout engine was in the car, you probably would not even feel the difference. When you know, you are conscious of the car's being in the six-cylinder or three-cylinder mode only at certain points; you feel a small, noiseless shift...
Ford also intends in due course to make the new system available in passenger cars. Engineer James Clarke, who heads the DDE project, is already driving a car equipped with an eight-cylinder version. On a highway trip, he believes he might be able to cut fuel consumption by as much...