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...strike was settled not by artful negotiation but by an eruption of hot-tempered fury. As the walkout by Britain's 17,700 dock workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port...
...weeks ago, a white Mercedes-Benz truck with SOVTRANSAVTO painted in blue Cyrillic letters on its side pulled up to the Swiss border at Basel. The nine-ton tractor-trailer did not need to be inspected, the three Soviets inside insisted, because it was merely a "diplomatic pouch." But Swiss officials refused to accept that. Though the Vienna Convention does not specify a maximum size for a diplomatic pouch, the Swiss pointed out, in practice it almost never covers cartons of more than 450 Ibs. After much haggling, the Swiss allowed the truck to continue to the Soviet mission...
...honeymoon proved short-lived, as the Hondurans have begun to suspect that the temporary U.S. presence might soon prove permanent. On the streets of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, U.S. servicemen now attract baleful stares. When two G.I.s in a pickup truck hit a local student last May, an angry mob pounced on the vehicle and set it ablaze. Most important, after ousting Alvarez in a barracks coup last April, General Walter López Reyes lost no time in publicly repudiating his predecessor's policy as a "distortion in the use of power, which endangers Honduras' peace-loving...
...beating up all those innocent young girls," as she wryly puts it. Not so, says Peanut Louie: "It looks like she's having fun playing tennis. Even if you get murdered you don't feel so bad." In short, Navratilova is anything but a diesel truck steaming heedlessly toward immortality...
...movie script, a movie setting: a theater under the stars in Manhattan's Central Park. Since 1957, when a flatbed truck carrying Joseph Papp's touring Free Shakespeare Festival broke down near Belvedere Lake, Central Park has served as the backdrop, the chorus and occasionally the antagonist of the Bard's plays. So, as the storm clouds of war form on King Henry's brow, the summer sun sets abruptly, leaving audience and players in the dark. Henry addresses his troops before battle, and some low-flying aircraft provide martial rumblings. Henry and Katharine share their...