Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens has been so shaken by a wave of strikes that last week he reorganized his entire Cabinet and installed a new one containing the chiefs of the army, navy, air force and the paramilitary carabineros. The immediate crisis was sparked by a nationwide truck owners' strike that began on July 26 and has partially isolated Santiago's 3,000,000 residents. Terrorist bands have blown up gasoline pipe lines and dynamited highways. Armed troops now guard gas stations, while Santiagoans in queues several blocks long wait for dwindling supplies of everything from matches...
Chile. Chilean truck owners and the United States's own International Brotherhood of Teamsters seem to have much in common. While the Teamsters attempt to eradicate the struggling United Farm Workers in California, their compatriots in Chile are attempting to reverse the course of Chile's socialist revolution...
...Duel. A well-executed thriller about a lone traveler in a life and death struggle with a reckless truck driver. When a show like this sneaks into my list of "highlights" for the week, it's time to just unplug your set and read or, if you must, just watch the screen. Maybe if you imagine the truck is the Lechmere limited and you're in a Toyota, you can relate to this movie. I doubt it. Channel...
...McGovern did not seem to appreciate a good joke much more than Nixon. When the President and some fat cats were about to pay a visit to John Connally's ranch, Tuck proposed sending a Brink's armored car to the scene followed by a Mexican laundry truck. But the McGovernites vetoed the suggestion...
...uncontrolled prices and sell at controlled prices. The number of cattle slaughtered at packing plants dropped 10% two weeks ago and plunged an estimated 23% last week. At least 40 plants shut down throughout the Middle West. There were reports of cattle rustling in Utah and a hijacked meat truck in Stamford, Conn. Canadian operators were buying cattle in the U.S., dressing it in Canada and selling it back to the U.S. at prices above freeze levels because there is no freeze on imports...