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...strike has also included 130 truck drivers and warehousemen at the plant who are striking in support of t he clerical workers...
Last week, 50 truck drivers and warehousemen picketed outside Harvard's Busch-Reisinger art museum because of Busch family contributions to the museum's construction...
...typical delivery is a convoy of the beer truck, a car filled with security men, and another car with union members inside with literature urging retailers and pedestrians not in purchase-the-beer...
...Syrians knew the structure and layouts of the Marine and French headquarters that were destroyed because they had previously occupied both buildings. The Syrians, in addition, control the region of eastern Lebanon where the Shi'ite fanatics are based. Recalling that the truck that destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters carried some 2,000 Ibs. of high explosives, former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms notes, "You can't go down to the corner drugstore and buy a ton of TNT. Syrian assistance was probably a factor...
...main questions involve the ease with which the terrorists' Mercedes truck burst through Marine defenses last Sunday. At 6:22 a.m. it rolled through a Lebanese Army checkpoint that guarded access to the Marine base (1), and drove south into the airport's unguarded civilian parking lot. There it circled once or twice to pick up speed (2), then hurtled through a roll of barbed wire (3) and sped between two guard posts (4). Two sentries were on duty, and under the Marines' standing orders for duty within the compound, their M-16 rifles were unloaded...