Word: backpackers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorman also traced an earlier shipment of guerrilla munitions from its April 28 arrival on El Salvador's Pacific coast. The weapons, he said, were moved north by backpack and mule train up to the provincial capital of San Miguel. After a battle on May 6, Salvadoran government troops found Bulgarian-made ammunition and a North Vietnamese mortar sight that Gorman said "probably" arrived in the April 28 shipment. Then Gorman displayed a map discovered at a guerrilla campsite on May 25. The crude chart showed "safe routes" nearly identical to those that Gorman had earlier outlined...
...without spending a dollar, except on books and movies. I had no money, but I also needed none tuition, room, and board were paid. I never bought clothes, never had cleaning bills, never ate out except at a sandwich shop called Elsie's, and traveled exclusively by thumb and backpack...
...three-flight shuttle veteran, gently juggled Challenger to within 200 ft. of Solar Max. George ("Pinky") Nelson, 33, an astronomer and high school athlete who was once offered a contract by the Minnesota Twins, then donned the $ 10 million manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the Buck Rogers-style jet backpack tested on last February's mission, to retrieve the crippled Max. His untethered ride seemed agonizingly slow. It took him 10 min. to traverse the 200 ft. from the open cargo bay across the reach of black vacuum. The short journey was historic: an unleashed spaceman going to work...
Wallet Lifted: A victim told police that her gold leather wallet containing $25 was taken from her backpack unattended on a shelf in a Byerly Hall room between 4:15 and 4:54 p.m. last Friday...
...addition, a victim told police her wallet was taken from a backpack in the coatroom area of Quincy House at dinnertime Friday. The wallet contained a Baybank card, I.D.'s and personal papers valued at $80, the victim told police...