Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day, the 6,000 guerrillas in West Beirut would pull back to refugee camps and be replaced by an international peace-keeping force, including troops from the U.S. and other countries. In the next three days, Palestinians bound for Jordan and Iraq would travel by bus or truck to the Bekaa Valley. From there they would proceed by road to Amman or by air to Baghdad. After that, the Palestinians heading for Egypt and perhaps other Arab countries would depart by air or sea. During the second week, the last of the guerrillas in West Beirut would leave...
Mugabe weighs moving against Nkomo as violence increases With no warning, the shots were fired from the thick bush at the nine tourists traveling by truck from Victoria Falls, the most spectacular waterfall in Africa, to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. Armed men ran to the vehicle, took the six male tourists as hostages and gave the tour guide a ransom note addressed to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. The message said that the kidnapers would "blast these kids" by week's end unless Mugabe released from jail two former leaders in the guerrilla army of his rival...
...other newspapers carried detailed description of the 1981 freak motorbike accident which left the 11-year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his dad's cycle. Claudio lost his pecker as the bike narrowly avoided a collision with a truck. Somehow, the back of the truck caught against the boy's blue jeans, and rip! Underwear and all. The 18-month-old tragedy made headlines because of a miraculous epilogue. In May, a team of doctors cut off chunks of Claudio's stomach calf and foot and successfully constructed...
...type of human drama that fills the bizarre literary world of novelist John Irving. The author of the 1978 bestseller, The World According to Garp, Irving writes with a perpetual sense of impending doom--at any time some sort of garish literary vehicle similar to Claudio's fateful truck can roar by and rip away everything familiar and safe. In Garp, penises fly, ears get chomped, tongues are replaced with stitches, and death always looms. "In the world according to Garp," Irving explains, "an evening could be hilarious and the next morning could be murderous...
BORN. To Lesley Brown, 34, mother of the first "test tube" baby, and John Brown, 42, a truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child...