Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volatility of Central America, described with bloodless urgency in the Kissinger report, were brought home in a more poignant way last week in the isthmus. A U.S. Army observation helicopter was forced down under mysterious circumstances in Honduran territory. The pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Jeffery C. Schwab, 27, of Joliet, Ill., was killed by Sandinistas firing from 100 yds. away across the Nicaraguan border. He was the first U.S. serviceman to die in combat in Honduras since the U.S. began greatly expanding its military presence in that country a year ago (three have died in accidents), and only the second...
Caterpillar said as many as 3000 non union office workers laid off during the strike will also report for work Monday Workers at non UAW plants in Joliet, III., and Milwaukee will be called back to work as they are needed, starting in the next few weeks...
...convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck-stop parking lots platooned with police and extra security guards to fend off vandals. Some operators bypassed truck stops altogether, however, to avoid intimidation by protesters. "I'm staying away from trouble," said a Fogarty Van Lines driver near Joliet...
...Joliet, Ill. Opened 1919 Capacity: 2,250 Inmates: 2,250 males
...Joliet Army Ammunition Plant. The Government hopes to sell 1,300 acres of this 23,000-acre compound 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Last year the expendable acreage was leased to local farmers for $750,000; they used it to grow corn, hay, soybeans and other crops, and to graze livestock. Farmers like John Nugent of Manhattan, Ill., who now rents some of the land for $95 per acre, are interested in buying "if the price is right." Harold Holz, who manages the land for the Uniroyal Corp. under a federal contract, says that the grazing land is worth around...