Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran politicians, each of whom has long aspired to be Prime Minister: Morarji Desai, 81, and Jagjivan Ram, 68. Desai left the ruling party in 1969 after Mrs. Gandhi fired him as Finance Minister. A teetotaling vegetarian who rises at 3 or 4 a.m. and works at his spinning wheel as a Gandhian duty, Desai has been barnstorming the country with a simple message: Mrs. Gandhi's emergency has introduced a "climate of fear," and if she wins again, she will reimpose the full force of the emergency...
...criminals by robbing a drugstore; then they progress to the telephone company and Dick's old firm. Dick eventually outsmarts his ex-boss Charley (Ed McMahon) to wind up as president of the corporation. If crime is a game, then their winning number keeps coming up on the roulette wheel...
...drug traffickers are easily identifiable in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, mainly because they are among the people who can afford expensive American cars with four-wheel drive to make it through the Sierra Madre Occidental for their treasure. The bosses dominate the local culture to such an extent that after a recent mountain shootout in which one soldier and twelve civilians were killed, local chiefs called in friendly newsmen to report the incident as a case of government brutality inflicted upon defenseless civilians. For printing the story, the reporters received about $450 apiece...
...been surveying the route to Edwards, relocating telephone poles and overseeing the resurfacing of 16 kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...
...Gulf Coast, a 4-in. snow hit parts of Mississippi, which was undergoing its coldest winter in 17 years. Jackson had a record number of auto accidents as motorists unfamiliar with icy driving banged up their cars. The speaker of Mississippi's house of representatives dispatched a four-wheel-drive truck to round up stranded legislators...