Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets know that they can get the latest technology only from the West.* They want more Western automated machine tools for their auto and truck plants, computerized petrochemical processes for refineries, airport guidance systems and just about everything else that is needed to run a successful modernized country. The problem is that the Russians have few finished goods they can sell to the West to finance such gigantic purchases. Hence they must barter raw materials, notably the rich natural-gas deposits of Siberia, and line up huge long-term credits...
...mostly military. On the side streets there was no traffic at all. Houses were closed and shuttered. Schools were deserted, shops closed, restaurants barricaded. Only a few sampans plied the Perfume River. Some of the buildings of Hue University were used to house refugees. Once a day a dump truck arrived loaded with loaves of flyspecked 'welfare' bread. Each family of five was given one loaf a day, and nothing more. 'All the people with enough money have gone,' one middle-aged refugee told me. 'Only we are left...
...former Texas House Speaker Gus Mutscher, among others, in a stock-fraud case (TIME, Feb. 15, 1971). Barnes was not directly involved, but after subsequent investigations exposed flagrant cases of nepotism (one legislator had five relatives on various payrolls) and misuse of state funds (another bought a pickup truck partly with $1,200 in state-purchased postage stamps), the disenchanted voters were in no mood for quibbling. "They threw the rascals out," moaned Barnes, "and me with them...
...occasion, the French ambassador and his wife chanced upon seven soldiers with an army truck looting the home of the French consul, and were roughed up by the looters. The following morning the Foreign Ministry made apologies and returned the consul's belongings. Burglaries have also occurred at homes of Italian, Canadian, Polish and Bulgarian diplomats. One exception of the caballeros de la noche: the Russian embassy, which also happens to be the most heavily guarded...
...help, and industry spokesmen are warning that the legislators must race in order to rescue the nation's rail system from a threatened collapse. They do not seem to be crying wolf; the railroads' plight is bad enough to have won the sympathy of their chief competitors. Truck lines and many barge operators are backing one of the bills because they fear that a final breakdown of the U.S. rail network would force Congress to nationalize the system-and such a move would set an ominous precedent for the whole transportation industry...