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...factor in Smith's decision may have been the effectiveness of ZANU terrorism, which has cast an aura of fear over the northern half of the country. On the highway just 40 miles north of Salisbury, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs recently encountered about 40 soldiers of the white-led, black-staffed Rhodesian African Rifles, gingerly searching the roadside bush. Behind them were three trucks with more soldiers and heavy weapons pointed outward in all directions. Griggs found Centenary, which is just 100 miles from Salisbury, a virtual armed camp, with soldiers always carrying their weapons at the ready...
Thousands of truckers each year drop in for services that begin with a safety lecture, often featuring state highway patrol movies of bloody and fatal accidents. The films serve a dual purpose: a caution against careless driving and a reminder of impending eternity. At a truck terminal in Dallas, Chaplain Mahlon Martin followed a film by giving the assembled drivers a typical Transport for Christ pitch: "People who say that one of these days they'll get it straightened out with the Lord might find that tomorrow is too late." Besides regular services, the two-man chapel crews also...
Gear with God. Keys' outfit, with its headquarters in Waterdown, Ont., now has twelve ordained chaplains who head the blue-uniformed chapel crews in the three rigs. It also includes 40 full-time evangelists and 300 part-time workers. Keys publishes a tabloid newspaper, The Highway Evangelist (circ. 105,000), ten times a year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull...
...trio of commandos, dressed in jeans and carrying knapsacks filled with explosives, first surfaced at midnight along the Safad road two miles from Ma'alot. One of them stepped into the highway and attempted to stop a truck carrying seven Arab women home to the village of Fassouta from night-shift work at a nearby textile plant. When the truck driver, aware that an alert was on, refused to stop, two of the Arabs opened fire. One woman was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and all the others were hurt. The truck's engine was shot out. Driver Faiz Saad...
Puffing through a park or panting along a highway, joggers are unquestionably helping their hearts. But are they shedding poundage as well? No, say three U.S. Air Force researchers in the A.M.A. Journal: exercise alone can't do it. A runner of medium weight who wishes to shed a pound of fat on a one-shot basis must expend 3,500 calories, which means that he must run for well over an hour...