Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week before the negotiators met in Paris, the U.S. command in Saigon issued a directive urging field officers to go "all out" to hit the enemy. The Communists, similarly, stepped up their attacks and increased the rate of infiltration; U.S. reconnaissance pilots (see THE WORLD) report sighting 100-truck convoys in areas of Laos and North Viet Nam's southern panhandle where ten trucks once constituted a big catch...
...scantest signs of activity by Communist forces. Finding the infiltrating enemy has been a lot easier of late. "We are spotting convoys of more than 100 vehicles in Laos and the lower panhandle now," says one U.S. reconnaissance pilot. "It used to be that 10 to 15 trucks were a big catch." Now nearly every photo foray turns up new roads and fuel depots, fresh truck parks and antiaircraft gun sites...
Things get a little ridiculous with a raid on a trailer truck, in which a score of pretty boys and a silver-haired gent in a Homburg seem to be having a pitch-dark love-in. But the movie picks up again with a moving, gut-tightening scene in which Joe extracts a confession from the roommate, beautifully played by Tony Musante. By cracking the case, Joe makes lieutenant at last...
...books show discrepancies at critical points. For example, how did Philby, as the net closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different version...
...Councillor received a phone call about the problem from a constituent last Saturday. "So I went down to Sixth Street and--lo and behold--there was a truck there, with two men in it. I asked them what they were doing. They didn't have the answers, but they kept taking the bricks," he said...