Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Thursday, a van with diplomatic license plates pulled up at a checkpoint outside the embassy annex, a building in East Beirut that in the past few months had become the headquarters of Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and his staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce...
Despite President Reagan's assertions to the contrary, the lapses in security which let a crazed fanatic gun his bomb-laden van to the front entrance of the embassy remain nothing short of shocking...
Security procedures were so lax that the terrorist van was already far past local Phalangist militiamen before they realized something was wrong and started to shoot. Only the chance presence of the British ambassador and his bodyguards, who shot the driver before he could enter the building's garage, saved the embassy from total destruction...
...California to New Jersey. "Grab a sign and get in line," shouted union organizers at workers as they poured out of the GM factory in Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
...lounge chair, which Diffrient named for Jefferson, has none of the sleek elegance of the chaise longues designed by Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, nor the coziness of the Eames lounge chair. But then, none of them is adjustable and completely comfortable. In designing his Jefferson chair, Diffrient set aside all questions of form and tried to think like an engineer. After much trial and error, he arrived at a design that suspends the chair on a central axis that pivots much as the body does at the waist and hips. The pivoting motion is controlled...