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During the last famine the rebels and international agencies had a policy of live and let live. But in late October, Eritrean People's Liberation Front guerrillas attacked an unguarded convoy of 23 trucks on its way from Asmara, capital of Eritrea, to Mekele, capital of Tigre. One driver was killed, and the trucks -- loaded with 674 tons of food, enough to feed 30,000 people for a month -- were destroyed by grenades. The E.P.L.F. claimed that some of the trucks contained military equipment, a charge that U.N. officials deny. Since then, the E.P.L.F. has attacked two Ethiopian military-civilian...
...Rather than controlling a car solely by the angle at which the front tires meet the road -- the method used by wheeled vehicles since the horse-drawn carriage -- four-wheel steering turns the wheels simultaneously at both ends of the car. The idea is intuitively appealing to any city driver who has ever pulled up to a too-short parking space and wished he could point all four tires toward the curb and crab right...
...difference comes from the dynamics of high-speed motoring. When a driver traveling at highway speeds turns the wheel of a conventional, two-wheel steering car, the front tires immediately begin to pivot and the car's forward momentum generates a powerful sideways or cornering force at the front axle. The rear tires, however, have to wait until the car has actually started its turn before they begin to generate a corresponding force at the rear axle. That is why a car with two-wheel steering fishtails during lane changes, the back end is trying to catch...
Within minutes, the craft's single passenger was fulfilling his bloody mission. Armed with a Soviet-made Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol with a silencer, and several hand grenades, he ran toward a military camp 175 yds. away. He opened fire on a truck outside the base, killing the driver and wounding a woman soldier riding with him. As the attacker hurled grenades and sprayed bullets, the single guard at the gate retreated, allowing the assailant free entry into the camp. The man, who turned out to be a Palestinian guerrilla, had killed six Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others...
...deputy editor of the daily La Repubblica, writes that Italy is coming apart at the seams, not because of the Red Brigades, Middle East terrorists or civil war, as was once feared, but because of its own political . follies and foibles. Describing the everyday struggle of Italians to get driver's licenses, business permits, papers to prove car or home ownership, tax reimbursements and the like, he says, "We're on the terrain of bureaucratic sadism...