Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 6,000 farm workers gathered in Delano's Community Park for a Mass and bread-breaking ceremony. Unable to walk without aid, Chavez took Communion beside Bobby Kennedy, who later climbed onto a flatbed truck to address the crowd in a Codtown Castilian so tortured that he asked Chavez: "Am I ruining the language?" Finally, Kennedy settled for giving a simple cheer: "Viva la Causa! Viva Cesar Chavez,! Viva...
...move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother the allies. Surrounded by open country, Hué sits amid far easier terrain for fighting. Naval guns can reach it for fire support...
...allies are making major efforts to improve security along the highways and waterways; two weeks ago the first truck convoy since Tet, bearing relief goods for Hué, moved up the vital Highway 1 from Danang to the stricken city. In the face of the massive Communist threat throughout the corps, little else but mobile defense is being undertaken. Some 2,000 civilian volunteers are being armed in Hué, Danang, Quang Tri City and other cities as "people's self-defense forces...
...Long and his colleagues were driving on R Street, four blocks from the embassy. They were in the right lane of a two-lane, one-way street. "Suddenly," Long recalled, "a truck next to us rammed into us by swerving into our lane while we were going about 5 miles an hour." The Vietnamese students pleaded that they had an urgent appointment, Long said, while the truck driver insisted on a complete exchange of papers and calling a policeman. Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the embassy. It was 10:15. They were greeted by Nguyen Ngoc Bich...
...always the fastest, but he never really believed in skiing; he never thought it could be a whole life. And where is Gérard now? Down in the val ley somewhere, driving a truck...