Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police said the bomb, which they believe was several sticks of dynamite, was detonated by someone on a grassy hill overlooking the road seconds after Shultz's car had passed...
...time of the blast, dozens of people were on the hill watching the ll-car motorcade travel from the airport to the city...
Shultz was riding in the first few cars of the motorcade, apart from his wife. Mrs. Shultz was in the first car that was damaged, medical personnel were in the second, and Redman was in the third, said State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley in Washington...
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombings, but Foreign Minister Guillermo Bedregal said both were the work of cocaine dealers. Bedregal was riding in Shultz's car along with U.S. Embassy charge d'affaires David Greenley...
Although a Yugo can be had for less than $4,000, making it the cheapest car in the U.S., its fortunes have been flagging. Americans bought only 43,000 of the glitch-prone subcompacts last year -- well below predictions made when the two-door hatchback was first imported from Yugoslavia in 1985. Now a consortium organized by the Mabon, Nugent investment firm in New York City has paid $40 million to gain control of Yugo America and has promised to spend $40 million more for a campaign to tout new models...