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With the memoirs out of the way, MacArthur resumed his quiet, circumscribed routine. At 84, he was still a fine, bayonet-straight specimen of a soldier. Then, early in March, doctors at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital operated on him and removed his gall bladder. He appeared to progress fairly well after that, but soon he began to fail. For four weeks he fought tenaciously to live. Doctors performed two more major operations. It seemed that no ordinary man could withstand such punishment, but incredibly, MacArthur clung to life. Then at last he let go, drifted into a coma...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...
Marshall, who never got to West Point, first took up soldiering at Virginia Military Institute, where his Pennsylvania twang immediately marked him as a stranger. The lowly "rat" was forced to squat over a bayonet; after 20 minutes Marshall fell and gashed his buttock but dutifully followed the code of silence. Marshall was a mediocre student but in his senior year was elected "first captain...
...detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon in our arsenal, a bayonet, unless it has been subjected to exhaustive tests under every conceivable condition. Here we would accept, with childlike faith in mathematical formulas and extrapolation, the efficiency of the most intricate, complicated and costly weapon without even one test under war conditions...
...civil rights, Goldwater cried: "It is not the Republican Party that has bred racial discontent in this land. It is not the Republican Party that has dealt mortal blows to the progress that was being made between men of good will who know that the point of a bayonet can kill the point of a principle. It is not the Republican Party that has played politics with prejudice...