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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who recognized Be on his return visit vanished after an investigating team headed by a North Vietnamese officer entered the village. The hamlet chief was blown to bits when he stepped on a mine outside his office. Another mine, detonated from ambush, killed eleven persons riding in a Lambretta minibus. Among the passengers: another cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Nonheroic Non-Death | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Americans, who may eventually spend about $100 million altogether on Indonesian ventures, are getting competition from other nations. Among the 19 bidders for offshore oil rights are French, Canadian, Japanese and Australian companies. Italy's Lambretta is dickering to build a motor-scooter plant to put more of Indonesia's 107 million people on wheels. The Netherlands' Philips' Electric, through a subsidiary, intends to start a radio-parts factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Back to Business | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...Lambretta motor scooter buzzed past the cops, parked across the street from the embassy. Moments later, a Renault Fregate sedan drove up, pulled up to the curb about four yards from the building. The driver got out, complained about having motor trouble. When a cop told him to move on because he was blocking traffic, he opened fire with a pistol. The Lambretta rider also began blasting away. The Saigon cops shot back; the car-driving terrorist was riddled, and the scooter rider fled for his life. One policeman fell, wounded in the stomach. Hearing the gunfire, embassy workers hurried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Outrages like This | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...almost a month, the rate of Viet Cong terrorist "incidents" has been up from an average 300 to 400 per week to 500 to 700, with a higher-than-usual percentage consisting of seemingly senseless mayhem. The Reds have mined and fired on peasant-loaded buses, ambushed three-wheeled Lambretta motor scooters, which are a favorite peasant means of conveyance, and unmercifully harassed junk families on canals and rivers. Last month the Reds burned every building in one hamlet to the ground, including the local Buddhist temple. One night last week in Ba Xuyen province, while a crowd of farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: And Now the Rains | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Like most major Latin American companies, SIAM (whose initials, in Spanish, stand for American Industrial Machinery Corp.) is not an innovator but an imitator. Under various license deals, it produces Westinghouse refrigerators and air conditioners, Hoover washing machines, British Motor Corp. Riley cars, Italian Lambretta scooters, Swedish Electrolux floor polishers and a multitude of other hard goods for Argentina, which boasts the broadest middle-class market in Latin America. Says Chairman Guy Clutterbuck, 55: "Conditions in Argentina make it difficult to carry out long and costly experimental programs. After all, Europe and the U.S. have much more technical know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Argentina's Nimble Giant | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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