Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spearheaded by a dump truck that smashed through the main gate, Thai paratroops, border guards and marines rushed in. Peppering the buildings with small arms fire, grenades and anti-tank shells, the soldiers swept through the campus. The toll: 41 dead (only two of them police) and 180 injured. "They were out for blood," said one Western newsman who had covered the war in Viet Nam. "It was the worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses...
...known for his firm defense of human rights during the Peronist years, was kidnaped from his home in southern Argentina in mid-August. Although Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy personally tried to find him, the search took two weeks. Solari was finally pitched out of the back of a truck, together with another legislator who had been kidnaped at the same time. Both men were immediately rearrested by the army...
...Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space on a 747. Of course, the plane was needed to haul off some of the Sultan's own purchases, including six custom-made Cadillac Sevilles, one Porsche, a 25-ft. ocean-going speedboat with trailer, and a Chevy truck. The merchandise seemed practical enough...
Eleven students, in a courageous show of support for the striking workers, were arrested while attempting to prevent a delivery truck from crossing picket lines near a Brown dining hall last Thursday. The unprecedented arrests by local police of students on the Providence campus were directly authorized by the Brown administration...
Michael Curtin, one of the arrested students said he believes "some students would like to have seen us run over by the truck" the protesters tried to block before their arrest...