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...Attorney General, no FBI agent keeps a won-loss column on criminals convicted. It's our job to administer justice--and that might mean bribing someone or even driving bamboo splints under his fingernails if necessary. Wiretapping is also done to this end. We don't plant mikes to smash the rights of the citizen, but to see justice done...
...hanker for some spoon-fed adventure. In Nairobi, a visitor can step off an airplane and, within ten minutes by car, be in the wilds of the Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa...
...proverb carries more importance than ever in the struggle with the Viet Cong to win the countryside, the Saigon government this week launched Viet Nam's most meaningful and democratic village and hamlet elections in modern times. Throughout Viet Nam, thousands of peasants entered polling booths built of bamboo matting and black cloth to elect their own local officials, dropping their voting cards into boxes adorned with yellow and red stripes of the South Vietnamese flag...
...Ecuadorians by displaying an enthusiasm and a patience that can only astound--or dismay--other Vounteers. On their first day in town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
...told and what he painfully finds out about the way things really are. As set down with disarming simplicity by Romero, Pito's story is "the dialogue between a poet and a madman." His travels with what he calls his "prodigious flute," a pipe whittled from bamboo, lead him all through the state of Michoacan and always take him back to the village of Santa Clara del Cobre, his bitterly loved and hated birthplace...