Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caught in the middle of the conflict were at least 6,000 tourists. Under escort of U.N. and British troops, a makeshift convoy of more than 500 private autos, trucks and armored cars evacuated about 4,400 foreign nationals from the beleaguered capital to the British base at Dhekelia...
...convoy reached a bunker, behind which and out of sight stood a battery of Soviet-made 122-mm. guns. When they opened fire, we saw their shells explode inside Israeli lines about one mile away. "It is a daily thing," a Syrian officer said. "We try to stop them from improving their positions." It was not too long before the Israelis responded. American-made 155-mm. shells burst on either side of the bunker...
...driver refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their way to packing plants. A total of 1,500 guardsmen were escorting trucks through Ohio. All together, eight states were forced to call out National Guard troops to check the violence...
...week as he passed along that seemingly routine flight clearance to a visiting Swiss pilot. The controller could hardly be blamed for the unprofessional display of emotion. The jet that he was routing was a Swiss DC-9 on charter to the International Red Cross. Shortly before takeoff, a convoy of 18 Israeli ambulances with red Star of David markings drew alongside the jet, owned by a charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas and were wrapped in gray blankets with their hospital records pinned...
...ROLL OUT. CBS. Friday, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T. Another wartime comedy, this time about a team of black convoy drivers in World War II France. The actors are delightful, especially Stu Gilliam as the street-smart sharpie "Sweet" Williams, cherub-faced Hilly Hicks as his Good Book-quoting buddy, and Val Bisoglio as the group's irascible Italian captain spleening his personal vendetta against il Duce. The dominant black vernacular, if slightly too contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange...