Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Official Mourning. Amin, who has dissolved Parliament and banned political activity for two years, decided that his control over the country was firm enough for him to take the risk. On the first day of official mourning, he drove in an open Jeep past a three-mile line of Baganda tribesmen. In the Namirembe Anglican Cathedral, he stood for 30 minutes beside the figure of the Kabaka, almost perfectly preserved in a transparent coffin...
...Laos' jungled mountains. One unconscious soldier had one arm wrapped around a machine-gun mount, while his comrades held him from inside the chopper; as the craft touched down, they let go, and he fell to the ground in a heap. A young U.S. adviser, watching from a Jeep, held the latest copy of Stars and Stripes, which carried the headline: ROGERS: LAOS DRIVE A SUCCESS. His comment: "Sure, and here come the victors...
After watching television some nights, Red Simpson, a 56-year-old Florida cattle rancher, stars in a private little drama of his own. In the classic tradition of the video western, Simpson moseys out to his faithful Jeep and for several hours rides the range of Osceola County in search of rustlers. Cattle raising, long overshadowed by Florida's famous beach resorts, is big business in the Sunshine State, where the first stock was brought in by Ponce de León in 1521. Today almost a quarter of all Florida's acreage is grazing land...
There are so many police and soldiers. Every other street corner, literally. The worst are the Special Forces trained Rangers, with their bush hats and their spanking silver grease guns. I've only seen American soldiers twice-at the American Embassy and once whipping around the corner in a jeep...
Whites who venture into Soul Alley do so at their own risk, as two military policemen learned a month ago. Five minutes after they drove in at mid-morning in their Jeep, they walked back out-minus the vehicle and their weapons. The Army has known about Soul Alley and its deserters ever since the haven sprang up three years ago, and MPs have frequently staged minor raids and roundups. The incident with the Jeep sparked the biggest raid yet. But even if the brass cleaned up Soul Alley, its residents, rather like the Viet Cong, would soon drift back...