Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malek Abedi, 32, lived in the provincial capital of Shiraz with his wife and an eight-year-old son. While he was being driven home in a Jeep with two other land-reform officials, a band of 15 or 20 masked, armed horsemen stopped the car near town and ordered the occupants to get out. "Abedi was the first one out." recalled the driver, "and they immediately cut him down with shotgun and rifle fire." Without harming the other two officials, the killers fled...
...headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army must climb up rocky Jeep paths and through heavily forested hills before reaching the mountain rampart. In this region of howling blizzards, avalanches and thin air, even Jeeps have to be fitted with superchargers, and tanks and trucks are useless because of terrible roads...
...DELHI, India, Oct. 27-A 10,000-man Red Chinese invasion force was reported driving down a jeep trail from Towang today in a possible effort to break through the eastern Himalayas into India's thickly populated plains of Assam...
...enter Brazil's auto market on a partnership basis and personally guaranteed a $42 million Bank of America loan that provided Willys do Brasil's working capital. But it is due as well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...
...believe in U Thant's good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack a Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops. Though the U.N. commander admitted that "someone might have been hit," Acting Secretary-General U Thant's office in Manhattan called the incident "a cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan...