Word: taunus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to placate a public increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers in a fuel-short society. Since foreign-car makers generally tend to build smaller vehicles than the Americans do, the teardown experts are devoting special emphasis to ripping apart and examining every Toyota, Audi or Taunus that they can get their socket wrenches...
...yard in length. Nevertheless, investigators determined that each bomb had exploded when the plane reached about 12,000 ft., indicating that altimeters had been used as fuses. Checks of shops in Frankfurt turned up a pair of Arabs who had bought altimeters and tested them in the nearby Taunus Mountains. They were picked up for questioning, and alarms went out for two others...