Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...
...looking for the thief. Then they came roaring back down Gia Long street. A 15-year-old student named Nguyen Van Minh was sitting on a fence outside the Tay Son High School, smoking and reading as he waited for his afternoon classes. From the back of the U.S. truck, a soldier raised his M-16 and sent a rifle shot into the boy's forehead. Minh slumped forward, the back of his skull blown away. "His brain broke out," said a stunned eyewitness...
After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...
...judge's death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...
Special Sheriff Ralph Bens ordered police in when the crowd blocked the sidewalk and obstructed movers who were loading the last pieces of Cunningham's furniture into a truck hired by Brazao...