Word: two
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Two artillery batteries from Fort Ord, Calif.--a total of 141 soldiers--were pulled out Monday, said White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. One planeload of troops arrived at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio late Monday...
...country hovers at the edge of the definitive changes that have swept Eastern Europe, but hesitates to take the plunge. Moscow's latest five-year economic plan, announced two weeks ago, still retains central control of production quotas and postpones vital price reforms until 1992. Gorbachev denies that he intends to move to a totally Western-style, free-market system. He insists that his perestroika can in time deliver democracy in a one-party state and efficiency in a planned economy...
Small, snub nosed, slow and the product of Stalinist central planning, the Trabant is the ugly duckling of East Germany's roadways. The ubiquitous "Trabi" has not had its flaky Duraplast body redesigned since the first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two-stroke engine coughs out more pollution than almost any other auto. Often the motor's two cylinders come on line one at a time until they sputter in unison in a puff of blue smoke, sounding uncannily like an ancient sewing machine...
Then there is the one about the customer who walks into a Trabi dealer. Says the customer: "I want a Trabi with a two-tone paint...
Andreas Kippe of West Germany's ADAC Auto Club has a favorite. "How many workers does it take to build a Trabi? Answer: two, one to fold and one to paste." But Kippe says the ribbing is all part of West Germany's tough love for the ungainly auto. "Some of these jokes sound nasty," says Kippe, "but people who love each other make jokes about each other." In fact, ADAC's emergency service aids any Trabi in trouble, free of charge...