Word: knapsackers
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...crude, homemade submarine. The most reliable technique for safe smuggling is still the local spallone (from the Italian spalla, or shoulder). He is a sure-footed mountain man who trudges through the rocky gorge and Alpine forest of the border country with his fags in a shoulder knapsack, then sells them to a distributor who supplies the big cities...
...destination, deep in the jungle, was a camp sur rounded by mine fields and 16 barricades of barbed wire. The Viet Cong held Okamura a prisoner there. They insisted that he was an American, despite his Japanese passport, press accreditations, and a miniature Japanese flag on his knapsack with an inscription in Vietnamese: "I am a Japanese correspondent. Mr. Okamura. Please do not kill me." He learned later that six G.I.s, two Australians and one Filipino were also imprisoned on the post, though he was not permitted to see them. Clusters of artillery shells dropped near headquarters day and night...
...Spain--An 18-year-old student from Scotland, Stuart Christie, was sentenced earlier this month to 20 years in jail by a military court in Spain for "terrorist activities" against the regime of Francisco Franco. The student, a self-proclaimed anarchist, was arrested while hitchhiking to Madrid with a knapsack full of plastic explosives. Christie's mother watched the trial, commented laconically: "I don't think it would be taken so seriously back home ... he is very young...
...haunts have changed, and so have his looks: he is younger now-often no more than 20-and far less affluent. He crosses the ocean on a charter flight, not a luxury liner, carries no steamer trunk but a single (generally battered) suitcase, and sometimes gets along on a knapsack. He travels in a Volkswagen (also generally battered) or a secondhand scooter, or he hitchhikes. He will stay in hostels or third-class hotels but prefers to bed down in a sleeping bag, never cares what his food is cooked in so long as it is native to the country...
...simplest outdoor grills ever devised is offered by Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $7.95. Folded it looks like a collapsed knapsack, and unfolded like a square wastebasket with a metal rack perched on top. It cooks a steak in six minutes and uses the most plentiful fuel in the land - old news papers, four sheets to a sirloin...