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...right. There were no front lines. Reality tended to melt into layers of unknowability. The same person could be a friend and an enemy?the smiling laundress in the morning carried a V.C. satchel charge at night. The enemy might even be a child with a basket. The ambiguity made Americans twitch. "My Lai?" says Larry Mitchell. "There were lots of My Lais...
Learning of the clandestine meeting and acting with quick efficiency, an unidentified opposition group had planted demolition charges in the foundation of the party headquarters. According to some reports, the plotters had even managed to gain access to the hall and place a bomb in a trash basket near the podium. At 9:05 p.m. on June 28th, about 15 minutes after Beheshti had begun to speak, the charges went off simultaneously. When the dust and debris had finally settled, a stunned and at first unbelieving count of the bodies began. There were plenty of white cloths in which...
...next time down the floor Bird threw in a rainbow turnaround: under the other basket he drew a charge and then hi one more jumper. The Celts were up by seven: not out of the woods but no longer asleep...
...Celtics widened their advantage to 59-37 at halftime, holding Houston to a single field goal in the last 7:40 of the second quarter, and keeping the Rockets away from the basket entirely in the first 4:26 of the third...
...feel they're watching us so we can be the subject of a paper," complained Army Sergeant Donald Hohman, of West Sacramento, Calif. "I don't want to be a case study." Said Richard Morefield of San Diego about the Government therapists: "They were prepared for basket cases, and that was only prudent. But I think that what they're going to learn is that there simply is no 'Iran syndrome...