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Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Back in the U.S.S.A. | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...propose an official school-wide "Action Man Day". On this day anyone who wants action with the Action Man would be able to call a central operator between specified hours and leave his name and address. These names would then be forwarded to the Action Man via armored truck. The Action Man can then assume that everyone else is either shy or does not want to have any action with...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

Spittle sprayed and adrenaline soared as we unanimously and instantaneously decided, "Tow truck!" Tow truck!" Twenty minutes later our car and Officer Redneck disappeared into the night...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sinkhole Forms in Street, Nearly Swallows Rabbit | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Outside big cities, many aid workers face constant danger. Guerrillas ambushed a 50-truck relief convoy late last year in southern Sudan, killing ten drivers. In a previous attack, rebels handcuffed truck drivers to their steering wheels and executed them by tossing hand grenades into the cabs. In Mozambique, where resistance fighters are at war with the Marxist government, few foreigners dare venture far from the capital of Maputo or other relatively secure areas. Some who do so never return. When relief workers reached the Indian Ocean port of Vilanculos last year, they found that a five-member East German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Hard Times for Foreign Aid | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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