Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics, the "boys," as they are affectionately called by the villagers who harbor them, have achieved control over much of the countryside. On occasion they have even left the bush to strike in Salisbury: a year ago, a raiding party blew up a gasoline depot, destroying a month's supply of fuel...
...week's end the plan was to cart off the tritium to the Navajo Army depot, a federal munitions dump near Flagstaff, Ariz. There it could be processed for sale, fed at a safe rate into the atmosphere or dumped at a nuclear waste site. But when a Flagstaff judge issued a restraining order against the transport, its destination became dubious...
...Refugee. He is 56, but looks far older; he has wounded, watery eyes, hanging layers of skin and raw, untended leg sores from "night bugs" and the cold ground he sleeps on. Around him throbs the busy black life of Salisbury's Harari Township depot, with its battered public buses straining under loads of passengers, suitcases, food crates and chicken baskets. Hawkers, vendors and shoppers mill about, and an outdoor loudspeaker, as shrill as an air raid siren, blares steel-drum music from a nearby record shop. Far from his country home 120 miles away near the Mozambique border...
Blacks fleeing the fighting were pouring into Salisbury at the rate of 400 a day. This refugee's family lives in a world of 6 sq. ft. next to the depot. Mango crates hold their few plates and pots and double as furniture. Dusty black rubber sheeting covers the ground by day and at night serves as roof...
...military reported that one million gallons of diesel fuel and thousands of gallons of gasoline were destroyed in a rocket attack Sunday night at a storage depot in Fort Victoria...