Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty with Bonn provides the political basis for an influx of German capital and technical and managerial know-how on which Russia rests its hopes of bridging its technological gap with the West. U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird may be able to pressure Henry Ford out of building a truck factory in the Soviet Union; but a European consortium headed by the German firm of Daimler-Benz is a highly acceptable alternative...
...Journal colleague Roger Bockrath caught an astonishing series of photographs (see following page). The gunmen decided to leave Kean behind. They walked out into the warm sunshine wielding guns and highway flares disguised to look like dynamite, then loaded themselves and their five captives into a rented Ford panel truck...
Incredibly, the police, though they knew there were five hostages inside, by most eyewitness accounts opened fire on the truck as it approached the roadblock. They exchanged gunfire with the men in the truck for one mad minute of hell. When it was over, Judge Haley was dead, his jaw and part of his face blown off by a blast from the shotgun taped to him. James McClain, William Christmas and the young intruder lay dead as well. Magee, Deputy District Attorney Thomas and one of the jurors were wounded...
...Greece? According to its director, Greek Exile Constantin Costa-Gavras, it is based throughout on "real facts." Up to a point, he is right. The movie faithfully re-creates an incident in 1963 when a leading left-wing deputy, Grigorios Lambrakis, was struck and killed by a pickup truck after addressing a rally in Salonica. As in the film, the death was first labeled an accident, but a tenacious prosecutor gathered enough evidence to show two right-wing thugs had been hired by police to commit the deed. At the subsequent trial, the murderers received light jail sentences...
Thermography has also proved helpful in finding flaws in aircraft assemblies, checking electronic circuitry and discovering diseased crops. It has even trapped smugglers. Equipped with a thermograph, border police in one Middle Eastern country found unusual heat coming from one area of a water-tank truck. An immediate inspection revealed that part of the cargo was indeed hot; it was a huge haul of hashish...