Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
These men drove Ben Barka to the villa in Fontenay-le-Vicomte, which was owned by Georges ("Jo") Boucheseiche, a small-time hood and bordello operator who also worked for the SDECE. About 30 men guarded the villa where Ben Barka was imprisoned...
Armed and trained by left-leaning sympathizers in the Portuguese army, Fretilin troops drove their rivals in the U.D.T. and other groups right up to the Indonesian border. Alarmed, the Jakarta regime offered sanctuary to some 40,000 Timorese fleeing the fighting. The Indonesians also began rearming the battered troops of the U.D.T. and its allies, including the pro-Indonesian Timorese Popular Democratic Association (APODETI), for a counteroffensive. Fretilin forces, described by an Australian reporter as "looking like a Dad's army of hippies," had set the stage for last week's showdown in November, when, already...
...that the way to avoid tickets is to find a car with a citizen's band radio. You can tell by the extra-long antenna, and it means that the driver is in constant touch with a network of truckers and others who know where the cops are. I drove behind a car like this for three states over the summer. The guy would slow down, seemingly inexplicably, every now and then, and sure enough, a few miles on, we would pass a waiting state police...
...puzzlement must have quickly vanished at the start of the second stanza. A Wheaton guard grabbed a tip-off and swiftly drove down the court the wrong way, leaving nine startled players behind...