Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhere between five and six in the morning Joe Germano stops his white jeep on a Somerville street to pick up Louis Sevilitti. They drive in silence to the Essex Delicatessen or a similar all-night restaurant where they know all the "regulars" and where Joe orders a bagel and tea, Louis coffee and an English. Then they make their way down Atlantic Ave, to the wharf where Louis' boat, the Salvatore, is moored, and motor out past the airport in the sunrise...
Bettering the terms of trade will not solve the problems of the poor. Though terms of trade have been worsening for the Third World (six years ago an American jeep cost 14 bags of coffee in South America, today 39), an improvement would serve primarily to fill the coffers of government treasuries and the bank accounts of the domestic exploiters of the poor...
...government the people blamed. It was the Americans. No longer did those benevolent trucks show up loaded with bags of rice stamped "U.S.A.," nor were there the blankets or all those well-armed G.I.s waving and smiling to the children. Two of us got out of a Jeep with a camera and a note pad, looked around and asked a few questions. The Vietnamese used to tolerate the attention of these little inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they...
...Cambodia, a soldier's family often follows him into the field. Troops wounded in the fighting at Prek Phnou are evacuated by Jeep or helicopter to a receiving hospital set up in the basketball stadium in what was once Sihanouk's Olympic City. Most of the wounded arrived with their wives and sometimes their children. A whole family often cowered silently in a corner of the operating room while surgeons cut a jagged 82-mm. mortar fragment from a soldier's chest...
...winter with a stole acceptance. He is a tall man in his mid-thirties, originally from New Sweden, Maine, who bears an uncanny resemblence in Paul Newman. He enjoys the winter. During the crowded summer season he talks wistfully of the isolation ahead: of being able to drive his Jeep up Route 6 and recognize the inhabitants of every car he passes...