Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week wore on, both the police and the Hoffa family were ready to try almost anything to find the former Teamster boss who had so suddenly vanished on July 30. At week's end an FBI laboratory technician was analyzing some stains found in a car belonging to the family of reported Mafia Leader Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone; there was some fear that the spots might be Hoffa's blood. Other efforts included the hypnotizing of people who had talked to Hoffa shortly before he disappeared, in the hope of coaxing some leads from their memories...
Some of the bloodiest fighting took place in and around Malange, the central coffee-growing area 250 miles east of Luanda. Rotting corpses contaminated the city's water supply, and authorities called for an emergency airlift of quicklime. Frightened whites formed a massive car and truck convoy, but their road route was deemed so dangerous that Portuguese troops refused to provide an armed escort. Despite the perils, most of the convoy arrived safely in Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where 20,000 white refugees were already waiting for evacuation...
Luis Guajardo Zamorano, 23, a cycling enthusiast and engineering student at the University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard...
...lists are not the only sign of collusion between DINA and sympathizers outside the country. Last month two mangled, bullet-ridden bodies were found in a burnt-out car in the Argentine town of Pilar, some 25 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Miraculously un-charred, however, were documents that enabled the Argentine police to identify the corpses as those of two Chilean students-Jaime Robotham Bravo, 24, and Luis Guendelman Wisniak, 26, neither of them very active politically. Also conveniently intact was a placard attached to the bodies that said the students had been "executed by the MIR," the Chilean...
After Richard Fitzsimmons' car was blown up, Hoffa told WWJ-TV in Detroit that no one in the local had had anything to do with the incident. "I'll bet my life on it," he declared. It was a chilling remark. Last week, while Local 299 posted a $25,000 reward for information leading to his return, the family of Jimmy Hoffa waited to see if he had lost...