Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference ended, Nujoma declared, "We'll go back to our bases and resume our fight until final victory." By week's end the violence had claimed more lives: five civilians were killed and two wounded when their truck hit a guerrilla land mine 30 miles from the Angolan border. Nujoma also vowed to renew his demands that the U.N. Security Council follow up its 1977 arms embargo against South Africa with economic sanctions. Britain, which has opposed such extreme measures in the past, has indicated that it might vote for a sanctions resolution. That might leave a veto...
...Bethesda. As they watched the motorcade arrive at the front entrance and awaited orders, the gray Navy ambulance carrying the casket sat virtually unattended. Then at 7:05 p.m., Lifton relates, the ambulance suddenly took off at high speed. The honor guard tried to follow in a pickup truck but lost it. Seaman Hubert Clark recalls himself and his mates wondering "where in the hell" the ambulance had gone...
Running a computer search on the car's license plates, the officers discovered that the tags had been reported stolen. The police quietly arrested the driver, whose name was Peter Sutcliffe, 35, a truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford. Three days later, nearly all of Britain knew of Sutcliffe: he was widely -some said recklessly-suspected of being the country's most notorious criminal, the Yorkshire Ripper, the man believed responsible for murdering 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since...
...their human compatriots looked on with horror, the pines were fed to a gurgling garbage truck--martyrs for their cause and stoically silent...
...pressure big oil companies put on the government to fight in needless foreign wars. The "Hell, no; we won't go! We won't fight for Texaco!" chant has been a favorite for many. Thus it seemed particularly appropriate that the driver of a tremendous Mobil Oil truck driving past Saturday's march to the Central Square police station would shout at demonstrators, "What's the matter with you, you bunch of assholes--" Protesters pelted him with snowballs...