Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Street between Boylston and Mt. Auburn and all of Church and Palmer Streets to vehicular traffic. Enlarged sidewalks, sitting areas with benches, and trees would supplant cars in the area. In addition, new off-the-street parking facilities would be encouraged on the perimeter of the Square, and more truck-loading areas would be provided...
...daybreak the entire town of Kilgarry, priest included, turns up on the beach to help the gallant militants gather guns and dynamite. It is the very picture of a spontaneous uprising-capped, when O'Leary's truck sticks in the sand, by the masses putting their shoulder to the wheel and impelling the Leninist vanguard onward. One must, after all, come from the people as well as go to them. This vanguard, unluckily, makes it only as far as the top of the hill, where it is met by the major with a full complement of rifles and mortars...
...standard cost/benefit analysis the results have been rather meager. Such expenses as an estimated $100,000 per truck destroyed on the Ho Chi Minh trail show a rather inefficient use of resources. After an input of well over $3 billion, 1000 downed planes and 200 captured pilots, the communist insurgency is at least as strong as ever...
After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...
...judge's death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...