Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later Ellsberg told of his own con version. He had come to Viet Nam a "superhawk," but changed when con fronted with the cavalier shooting of villagers from U.S. helicopters ("like herding cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax money, the wanton burning of villages, and the deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water...
...Kodak Executive Anthony da Cruz drove down the highway on the way to his plant near Buenos Aires, a green Ford truck suddenly swerved in front of him near a point where four workers were installing a traffic sign. Da Cruz slammed on the brakes and was rammed from behind by a Fiat pickup. The four "workmen" and four men in the Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed...
...their money because they are in deadly earnest, as they proved last week, when a group called the People's Revolutionary Army announced that it had "executed" Rear Admiral Francisco Aleman, a former chief of naval intelligence who disappeared on April 2. Last month, too, kidnapers crashed their truck into the car of Colonel Hector Iribarren, chief of intelligence for the Third Army Corps, and, when the dazed officer grappled with them, they killed him with a point-blank burst of automatic weapon fire...
...example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly went to a bar and ordered a beer, then suddenly dashed into the street to elude his police monitors and was never again seen alive. The police duly produced a truck driver who explained to reporters that he had accidentally run down the student and killed him. However, reliable sources report that there never was any truck and that the student himself was buried before anyone thought of producing a driver...
...Petty, now 59, watches as his son Richard, 35, helps load one of their gleaming, newly handcrafted Dodges onto a trailer truck at their 60-acre Level Cross spread. Richard is heading for a Grand National race in North Wilkesboro, N.C. Following in his father's slipstream, he is a fireballing folk hero, the center of attention at the North Wilkesboro track. Inevitably, doting fans who have driven their pickup trucks and campers hundreds of miles to see Petty race, ask him which of his many records−750 victories over 15 years, $1,411,788 in prize money...