Word: truck
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Buchman, a mild, prognathous giant with a Jeremiah Johnson beard, has been working at sculpture for six years. He studied painting and sculpture at the Skowhegan School in 1969, and for a time made constructions of logs held together with cut-up truck inner tubes. Buchman first noticed the stuff for his monoliths as he was driving north to Vermont one day in 1972, after one of his infrequent trips to New York: the highway went through a cutting, and ragged chunks of stone were littered all along the roadside. Realizing that "granite has to be the cheapest thing...
...between the Communists and the Saigon government. Thieu, it was said, had given up the territory in exchange for the safety of the population-a story emphatically denied by Saigon. In any case, there were some reports of Communist efforts to harass the flow of refugees. One 1,200-truck convoy of defeated troops and fleeing civilians crawling southeast from Pleiku toward the coast was attacked by rebel Montagnard groups. Total casualties...
...Lieut. General Pham Van Phu, commander of Military Region II. The President decided to take the most drastic of steps-strategic retreat. The four ranger groups defending Kontum were shifted southeast to the coastal province of Phu Yen, to be followed a few days later by the 1,200-truck refugee convoy from Pleiku...
...least 100 people have been reported killed in the crush at the precipitous Hai Van pass. A student and a policeman got into an argument and the student went over the edge, reported a New Zealand relief worker who interviewed refugees. One truck carrying at least 30 people was squeezed off the road and toppled over the precipice, which drops 1,000 ft. in some places...
Former Marine Sergeant Leonard Budd, who now works for the department of public health in Rowley, Mass., spent 5½ years in North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps after the truck he was driving near the DMZ was ambushed. Budd feels that aid to Viet Nam should be cut off. "We were right to supply them as long as the supply was needed and they had the initiative to follow through and use it wisely," he said. "But the way they have been wasting it, with their morale as low as it is, and deserting at the rate they...