Word: truck
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...seven political extremists charged in connection with the $1.6 million robbery of a Brink's armored truck in New York's Rockland County in 1981, the most notorious was Kathy Boudin, a member of the violent Weather Underground during the late 1960s. Daughter of prominent New York Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Boudin, she had been a fugitive since 1970, when she fled from a Greenwich Village town house that was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb factory secreted inside. Boudin pleaded innocent to charges of robbery and murder in the Brink's case, in which...
...Shultz and Reagan, the answer is yes, but with great caution. For example, the U.S. declined to join France, which also suffered casualties in the Beirut massacre, in a retaliatory raid against the truck bombers' suspected headquarters because Washington did not feel sufficiently confident in its intelligence. Furthermore, the celebrated failure of an antiterrorist mission could cost the U.S. dearly in prestige. Yet, with random violence increasing, the U.S., as a senior State Department official put it is determined to send an unmistakable message: "We don't allow terrorism to go unpunished...
...choice of such details is by no means infallible. At one point he cannot resist beginning to sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...
...French Foreign Legion fort in Ati, a Scottish legionnaire checks travel documents. Of the twelve robed passengers in our truck, he asks, "Who are all those guys with spears? Are they O.K.?" Before an excellent lunch, served on fine linen, the local legion commander says, "A Goran soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank...
After Biltine comes the Sahara. Driving in the desert is like swimming in treacle. The engine screams and one inches forward with painful slowness. To stop can mean being delayed for hours, perhaps days. Suddenly a Toyota appears, followed by a truck. The wild-eyed leader, his pistol wrapped in a cloth, begs for gasoline, explaining that his small escadron has been driving all night...