Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security men from the embassy trailed his light green, partially armored Chevrolet Impala, but dropped away before the entry into no man's land−apparently because Christian militiamen on the other side had insisted that only one car pass. Meloy's car moved through the last checkpoint on the Moslem side−and never reached the first Christian barricade. Somewhere between the two checkpoints, at a spot not visible to either side, the car was stopped by gunmen in what appeared to be a carefully planned operation: the three men were dragged from the vehicle and killed...
...Indian on a nickel and a degree from the Wharton School of Finance. He is also the owner of a Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a Travel Inn, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, a Cinema I, a Cinema II, a Mr. Softee ice-cream stand and a Fotomat - "a Checkpoint Charlie, a Mandelbaum Gate thing, a booth in the open center of a shopping mall...
Adding edge to quite another type of appetite is their third companion, the wife of the Swiss ambassador (Marlene Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
Aided by a strong tailwind and throngs of encouraging spectators. Will Rodgers took command of the 79th running of the Boston Marathon at the Wellesley checkpoint and sped to a record-breaking victory yesterday, winning in the phenomenal time of 2 hours 9 minutes and 55 seconds...
Instead they were rerouted to another checkpoint where they were promptly pointed back in the direction from which they had just come; soon they were pathetically moving back and forth between the blockades...