Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Associate Editor Edwin Warner and reported mainly by Washington's Latin American specialist Jerry Hannifin, with supplementary material from London Correspondent William McWhirter and Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who covered the overthrow of Allende. While reporting from Chile last year at the time of the truck drivers' strike before the coup, Rauch had asked a group of truckers who were enjoying a hearty barbecue on the tailgate of one of the vehicles blocking the road leading into Santiago just where they had got the money for such a feast. "From the CIA," was the laconic reply...
...truck backed into the crowd of about 500 onlookers and dumped a load of mud, half burying a six-year-old child who was pulled out scared but unhurt. A bulldozer started the crowd scattering by rolling a massive pile of steel sewer pipes at it. While water wagons high-arched jets of cold water at the crowd, other trucks careened along sidewalks and up grass embankments in pursuit of fleeing people...
Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...
Worse, there are signs that the downward spiral is reinforcing itself. As fewer sailings are scheduled, shippers turn to other means-truck or rail-to move cargoes, and sailings decline even more. What happened? Like the rest of the economy, Great Lakes shipping is suffering from inflation, especially in the cost of fuel to power ships. Bad labor relations also have plagued Chicago docks. "The I.L.A.," fumes Bechtold, "will not work in the rain. If they look at a puddle and see a bubble, they will walk off the ship...
...inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...