Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RODNEY KING CASE WENT TO the jury last week, Los Angeles residents were keeping a wary eye on another case involving a videotaped beating: the assault on white truck driver Reginald Denny by a group of black men at the outset of last year's riot. Although the parallels between the two incidents are largely superficial, many African Americans tend to equate them. The case against the three men accused in the Denny assault has become a symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks are treated by the criminal-justice system. Many Angelenos fear that a volatile situation...
...SURVIVING BULLETS AND HUNger, Bosnia's Muslims faced a new and particularly cruel deathtrap -- the lure of escape. At least 12 were killed, nearly all of them women and children, in the tumult of evacuating some 4,300 civilians from the besieged town of Srebrenica by two United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials...
...name is Achmed," read the article. "While fighting against the Zionist state, my commanding officer approached me and asked me to drive a truck full of explosives into a barracks full of imperialist United States forces. But I did not know how to drive stick. My brother Harouk took the mission, but I would have gladly died for the struggle...
...Kiki Smith's sculpture Mother -- a pair of ghostly, transparent feet, before which lie scattered dozens of glass drops, large and small, which might be tears or babies -- has an unforced and melancholy poetry. Charles Ray specializes in weird dislocations of scale; his 45-ft.-long red toy fire truck parked outside the museum is an arresting street presence, while his naked nuclear family inside -- father, mother, daughter and son, all exactly the same size -- is distinctly spooky in a way that derives from Magritte. Byron Kim's Belly Paintings, 1992, representing six different hues of skin, each a gracefully...
...phoned from a nearby booth to Ayyad's office at AlliedSignal, calls that Salameh's lawyer, Robert Precht, insists concerned "a family matter." Moreover, the complaint states, sometime around Feb. 15, Ayyad rented a red General Motors sedan and listed "Salameh" as a second driver. A Ryder truck-rental employee says that on Feb. 23, when Salameh rented the yellow van believed to have been used in the bombing, he was accompanied by a man driving a red General Motors sedan...