Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carefully avoiding any mention of its own struggles against capitalism, Peking has complained that "many Chinese in Viet Nam had the meager fruits of decades of hard work confiscated and stolen; most Chinese living in Ho Chi Minh City had their property searched and impounded before having to flee in a pathetic state...
...previous year had borrowed a local farmer's car, only to be arrested across the border in Zaïre and have the car destroyed. Consequently, Wood explored the nearby border roads to report on the strange victory march of the rebels in their victims' clothes, driving stolen cars, to the cheers of native bystanders...
Although the rebels had come on foot, many rode home aboard an estimated 350 vehicles stolen from Kolwezi residents. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited northern Zambia last week, reported that the improbable parade looked like "the largest and best organized stolen-car ring in history: dozens of sparkling Peugeots and Fiats, sedans and pickups, careening along amid clouds of dust, blue-and-gold Zaïre license plates glinting in the sun. One overloaded car carried a man clinging to its hood. Occasionally a stolen truck passed by jammed with rebels, not in uniform but arrayed...
...ammunition were .stores of food, including U.S. military rations, cans of fruit salad, and frankfurters. Much of the material had been either stolen or purchased illicitly from the Zaïrian army, whose soldiers are so poorly paid that corruption is endemic...
...Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen goods. Maybe it doesn't make any difference. In the end, only history can conclusively determine whether FM is Hollywood's answer to Last Year at Marienbad or just a particularly rank piece of garbage...