Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey, early morning of June 2, a truck was found smashed and burning in a ravine at El Número, on the coastal highway south of Ciudad Trujillo. Twisted in the gasoline-soaked wreckage were the bodies of six people. The wreck was listed as an accident by the Dominican government, and no details concerning an investigation were ever released...
Missing after the "accident" was the truck's owner, Porfirio Ramirez, commission merchant and member of a prominent Dominican family. Although the wreck and Ramirez' disappearance caused a stir in the Dominican Republic, the outside world heard little about it until last week, when a committee of Dominican exiles delivered a petition to the United Nations office at Lake Success. The petition charged that Ramirez and his companions were murdered, asked the U.N. to investigate the case as a violation of human rights...
...exiles' complaint was based chiefly on the story of a 21-year-old passenger who survived the wreck, escaped and talked with a member of the Ramirez family before he died in a hospital. The youth declared that Ramirez' truck had been stopped by Dominican soldiers at a road junction south of Ciudad Trujillo, on the night of June 1. When Ramirez jumped out, he was attacked with clubs, the witness said, but grabbed one away from a soldier and knocked down three men before he was riddled with bullets. Then soldiers took the seven passengers...
...truck driver who had lost both legs had learned to stand and was starting to walk. A mother of two who had been scarcely able to lift a finger because of arthritis mastered the controls of a wheelchair, flexed her hands, learned to walk a few steps...
...little more than a year ago Eddie was operating in & around Cleveland. He learned that Truck Driver PhilipA. Faranda, 36, often kept a lot of cash around the house. One night Eddie broke into Faranda's house, believing Faranda would be away. But the truck driver was at home and in a fighting mood. Eddie shot and killed Faranda, then disappeared...