Word: datsun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left her home in Oakland Park, Fla., last Sept. 27 with a clean-cut young man she called "Jerry Shephard." Her mother, Mrs. Lucille Place, was suspicious of the stranger so she noted down his license number just before he drove away in his blue-green Datsun. That same evening Susan's 16-year-old friend, Georgia Jessup, also left home. "I'm sorry, Mother and Dad," Georgia said in a note to her parents. "I love you both very much. I have to find my head...
...parents went to the police, but the police treated both disappearances as routine runaway cases. Although Mrs. Place told them the license number she had copied, there was a mix-up about where the car was registered. Months of inquiries passed before Mrs. Place finally managed to trace the Datsun to a small apartment house in Stuart, about 80 miles north of her home...
...Datsun 1200 (71.5-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 28.7 m.p.g., the best performance of any auto tested...
...residential area of Beirut largely inhabited by Palestinians, a garaged Datsun suddenly exploded in a shower of metal. The owner could not under stand why, but the police could. In the same garage stood another Datsun owned by Ziad Helou, one of four men identified as the assassins who shot down Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell out side the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel...
...four assassins, never brought to trial, were quietly released a year ago by Egyptian authorities. Now, apparently, Jordanian vigilantes are after them. The would-be avengers were so inexpert, however, that they not only timed their bomb wrong but tucked it under the wrong Datsun. At least Helou assumed so. He cried publicly for the Lebanese government to protect him from "acts of sabotage by the Jordanian, American and Israeli intelligence departments...