Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back up his threat, Israeli troops and tanks moved into Lebanon in a new tactic of continuous patrol. Fearful that the Israeli patrols were the prelude to an invasion, and weary of repeated shellings, 20,000 Lebanese streamed north, away from the border, by donkey, car and truck. Two farming villages, Kfar Chouba and Kfar Hamam, were completely deserted and soon occupied by Arab guerrillas. In nearby Khiam, Houla and Blida, men sent their women and children away and stayed on themselves to protect their homes and possessions...
...strewn around the wreckage. Two teachers and seven children died instantly: another student and teacher died later, and the remaining 20 aboard the bus were all wounded. Nor did the toll end there. Shortly afterward, five parents speeding to see their children in the hospital were injured when the truck carrying them overturned. An Israeli army officer scouting for the guerrillas lost a foot when he stumbled into a minefield...
...following evening a fire truck responding to a trash fire on the campus was stoned. One unsubstantiated report said that a sniper had shot at the truck. Around midnight, police received complaints that a crowd of blacks at the campus was stoning passing cars. When 75 city and state highway policemen marched up in front of the modern glass-and-brick Alexander Hall, a women's dormitory, they were met by a crowd of 100 jeering men throwing rocks and bottles...
When Henry Ford II was feted in Moscow last month, and invited to help build a Soviet truck plant, one unknown factor was what the Nixon Administration's ultimate attitude would be. Last week Defense Secretary Melvin Laird delivered a blunt answer: "I am against exporting American technology to the Soviet Union while they are sending trucks to North Vietnam." Ford had already rejected a similar Laird comment as "not only highly misleading, but also a gratuitous attack upon my common sense and patriotism." Last week, however, at the company's annual meeting, he unhappily bowed...
...annual meeting last week-for good reason. The meeting was held outside Los Angeles in a vacant helicopter hangar surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire. Shareholders had to pass through four checkpoints manned by helmeted and pistol-packing guards. Company officials patrolled nearby rooftops, and two tow trucks and a fire truck were on hand in case of trouble. The 630 stockholders who attended, many of them present and former Lockheed employees, roundly applauded the management-despite Chairman Daniel J. Haughton's report that the company lost $32.6 million last year...