Word: convoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoyo de Manzanares, the convoy disappeared up a twisting, rutted dirt road. Barred from following, we turned off the car motor and listened. Off below, down the road among the boulders and scrub brush, there was a sudden volley of rifle fire. It was 9:25 a.m. At 9:40 a.m. there came a second volley and at 10, a third. Armed police shuffled up and down the dirt road, calmly puffing cigarettes. By 11, the gray vans carrying the remains appeared, en route back to the village. A black car also loomed into view; it contained the local priest...
...time we hit Route 1 traffic had begun to back up. The bus convoy's game plan went into effect. Working out of the I-formation, but 81 threw a key block, wiping out the left land. Using an intercom system for a huddle the next five buses made their move, sweeping and leaving an array of stalled cars in the wake of their fumes. In a systematic fashion the convoy weaved its way through the opposing traffic; gainers interspersed with long breakdown lane sweeps...
...stream of refugees chose the inland route across the shifting sands of the Namib Desert into South West Africa. Others boarded fishing trawlers sailing down the southeastern Atlantic's treacherous Skeleton Coast to Walvis Bay. Still others joined a convoy of trucks that crossed the Cunene River and headed along the scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness. The refugees were the vanguard of an estimated 350,000 people who are trying desperately to escape from Angola. As the vicious civil war among the Portuguese territory's three black independence parties has steadily worsened...
...many, the nearest refuge is South West Africa (Namibia), the huge territory administered by South Africa. When South African officials recently opened up one border post in South West Africa, they were confronted with a convoy of nearly 3,000 vehicles carrying about 10,000 homeless Portuguese. In all, perhaps 20,000 have so far crossed the border into South West Africa...
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...