Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond Massawa, the problems multiply. With truck convoys that deliver the food to regional distribution centers frequently harassed by antigovernment rebels, the government's only solution to the problem is to close the roads -- and no food gets through. Airlifting is far more reliable: the giant C-130s can fly across the bone-white moonscape from Massawa to the interior city of Mekele in just half an hour. The unloading crews at the airstrip are a sight to behold. "Move it, move it, go ahead forward, go ahead forward, time is passing, time is passing," chanted a group...
...Nicky has to face the harsh realities of being poor and "slow" in Pittsburgh. He is a garbage "helper" for a private truck and receives low wages and inadequate benefits. Neighborhood thugs of all sorts find trusting Nicky to be easy prey...
...week, some of the women sported designer sunglasses and diamond-stud earrings to go with their smart dresses and slacks. Clapping in rhythm, the middle-class crowd jeered, "Down with Noriega! Get out, and let us eat!" When passing motorists blared their horns in approval, riot police poured from trucks bearing the painted image of Doberman attack dogs. Then from the side of the road rolled a truck hauling two water cannons inexplicably emblazoned with powder-blue Smurfs...
Gunning the engine, Laurel races down the rutted track. Even before the truck comes to a halt, Trevino is out and running. Suddenly shots are fired, and bullets buzz overhead. Muffled shouts and the sounds of breaking branches come from a thicket of mesquite. Then more shots, this time a short burst from an automatic weapon. A handgun replies purposefully. The shooting stops as abruptly as it started...
...ambulance from nearby Rio Grande City arrives for the wounded man. The other captured smuggler is taken off in a truck. Laurel issues new orders to his men, then reflects on the night's events. "I don't like it when the shooting starts," he says. "Your luck has got to run out sometime...