Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...
...looking for the thief. Then they came roaring back down Gia Long street. A 15-year-old student named Nguyen Van Minh was sitting on a fence outside the Tay Son High School, smoking and reading as he waited for his afternoon classes. From the back of the U.S. truck, a soldier raised his M-16 and sent a rifle shot into the boy's forehead. Minh slumped forward, the back of his skull blown away. "His brain broke out," said a stunned eyewitness...
Special Sheriff Ralph Bens ordered police in when the crowd blocked the sidewalk and obstructed movers who were loading the last pieces of Cunningham's furniture into a truck hired by Brazao...
Then Witness No. 31 at the Fort Benning court-martial altered the trial's course in a full clay of dramatic testimony last week. Dennis Conti, 21, a private first class in Calley's platoon and now a truck driver in Providence, told how he and Meadlo held a group of 30 to 40 villagers-most of them women and children-on a trail in My Lai at Calley's orders. Calley returned, Conti went on, and said: " 'I thought I told you to take care of these people.' I said...
...sheriff. Alma succeeds, and Tawes is forced to cover up for her father. Undone by all this, the sheriff wanders vacantly around town. His passion for Alma makes him an accomplice when her father shoots a deputy sheriff. It leaves Tawes wounded and ruined as the McCain pickup truck, with Alma aboard, rumbles off into the mountain mist...