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...still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed in a series of bamboo tiers reminiscent of a 19th century slave ship...
Winneman said the attack, which occurred between 9:30 p.m. Thursday and early Friday morning, left the succah with its sides cut, its bamboo roof broken, and littered with broken glass and bottles...
...Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
...bedraggled Line of Shans, some of whom had been passing a bamboo bong filled with marijuana when the Thai soldiers arrived, looked startled for a moment, then raised their weapons and opened fire. "It was like a shootout in a cowboy movie, only it wasn't a movie," recalled Sergeant Manit. "I've been in many battles with Communist insurgents, but they were nothing compared with this...
Track co-captain Randull started vaulting to combat boredom when he was ten years old and living in Ghana. Randall and his older brother used bamboo sticks and buried themselves over neights of four and five feet. This sybling competition soon moved from rivalry to ritual and when his family moved to Newton, Mass., Randall joined the Newton North track team to begin supervised vaulting...