Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diem's troops replied with grenades?giving Tri Quang both the martyrs and momentum he needed. Soon Buddhists were immolating themselves on street corners, the protesting crowds grew in number and violence, and on Nov. 1, Diem and Nhu were overthrown and shot in the rear of an army truck. Ironically enough, Tri Quang sat out the last two months of Diem's tragedy in the U.S. embassy, where he had been given sanctuary from the presidential police. The Buddhists, reported the late Marguerite Higgins when she interviewed Tri Quang during that long, hot summer, wanted "Diem's head wrapped...
...stationed there. Since there were no ranking Vietnamese officers around, Lieut. General Lewis Walt, commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force at the base, decided to move fast. He ordered a detail of 60 marines to cut Yeu's still advancing column in half by stalling a big truck on a bridge behind Yeu's forward command post, then claiming that the truck had broken down. When the Vietnamese troops caught on to the ruse, their commander demanded passage, declaring, "I am a brave man." Replied U.S. Marine Captain Carl Wreckwell: "I'm not saying...
...still remains the Communists' deadly alternative weapon. Last week a dozen Viet Cong attacked the guard post of a U.S. officers' billet, the Hotel Victoria, in suburban Saigon. Machine-gunning down the guards, they set off a Claymore-type mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed from...
...produce fertilizers, plastics and synthetic fibers. Two 15,000-ton cargo liners are being built for the Chinese in a Scottish shipyard. The French are building a chemical plant in China, have launched two freighters to be delivered to the Chinese, may also build a passenger ship and a truck-assembly plant. The Italians are selling steel and machinery, fertilizer components and marine engines to the Chinese, while Sweden has found a new market for its mining and food-processing equipment...
Looting & Molotovs. Swelling into the hundreds, a mob stormed through the twelve-block area that still bears the scars of what Watts calls "the Au gust revolution," overturning vehicles, smashing store windows, pommeling and stabbing whites. A Mexican-American truck driver, Lawrence Gomez, 30, was surrounded, beaten, and shot to death. Negro Joe Crawford, 33, for no apparent reason was killed by a sniper. Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through...