Word: trailered
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Even on the playing fields, Hassan's visit was a bust; his Moroccan army soccer team was only able to manage a tie with the Algerian squad. Next day, Hassan presented Ben Bella with a gift of a house trailer; all the guest got was a bill for staging the game-stadium rental, bus rental, and the cost of printing the programs. And when it came time to settle the hotel bill, Hassan's hosts pointedly looked the other way; by prior agreement, Hassan footed the bill for his entire no-man entourage...
...entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they stumbled down the steps of their burning trailer, set afire while parked on a road only 30 miles from the Transkei's capital of Umtata...
...headman serving Matanzima got into a tribal fight with 40 warriors armed with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid...
...task of construction, training and logistical coordination. For the Montana installations, the 54-ft. missiles are flown in C-133 cargo planes from an Air Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only...
Smack in front of his trailer platform, bold signs challenged him. "How long. Mr. Kennedy, how long?" asked one. "Less profile, more courage, blockade Cuba." read another. "O.K., we licked Mississippi, now how about Cuba...