Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truck traffic is equally relentless. Each night a fleet of some 1,000 convoy trucks rolls out from hiding places in limestone caves and bunkers and moves south. Each driver covers the same 15-to 40-mile stretch of road again and again until he can negotiate it blindfolded. There is a reason for that: headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system...
...scenario is frightening. A big black truck from Building and Grounds (B and G), the police unit in this affair, pulls up outside Quincy House. Two men in white uniforms get out and come up to our room. They knock on the door; the door opens...
...increasing flow of rice, fuel, ammunition and other supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which became more important to the Communists than ever when the Cambodian port of Kompong Som (Sihanoukville) was closed to them last year. In December, a U.S. bomber hit a jungle-covered truck depot 700 yards off the trail. Subsequent raids caused 7,000 secondary explosions and ignited fires that sent smoke rising 6,000 ft. That find and others like it have strengthened Washington's belief that the Communists are scrambling to restock the sanctuaries along the South Vietnamese border that were cleaned...
...side of Captain America and his fringed partner Billy, shotgunned off their glittering, raked choppers on a Southern back road. But for every cinemagoer who vicariously rode with Fonda and Hopper in that movie, there were probably ten who went with their redneck killers in the pickup truck. The chorus from press and TV remains pretty well unchanged, resembling the bleat of Orwell's sheep in Animal Farm: "Four wheels good, two wheels bad!" The image of the biker as delinquent will take a long time to eradicate. "You meet the nicest people on a Honda," proclaims the Japanese...
Most of the other radical video groups cover a broader range of material than does PVT. Raindance, as well as groups like San Francisco's Mobile Muck Truck and New Year's Global Village, covers both culturally and politically radical events...