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...time, I recall there were some officers alleging they had been kicked and bitten," he says. You had force with force in there, but the arrests were made and the building was cleared...
...Once Bitten, Forever...
China Beach revolves around a hospital-and-entertainment complex near Danang, and its protagonists range from a dedicated nurse (Dana Delany) to a hard-bitten war profiteer (Marg Helgenberger). Tour of Duty focuses on an all- male combat platoon, but this season has added two prominent female characters -- a wire-service reporter and a psychiatrist -- and, of course, a love interest for each...
...drive. Seated at the table, they wait. And wait. First Maxwell wraps a deal for a Moroccan satellite channel. Next his personal secretary, Andrea Martin, 25, a pale blond, appears with a message. Maxwell reads it and thunders, "He is as keen on this idea as if he was bitten by a rattler on the anus." Accustomed to such eruptions, Martin slips away as another button lights. "Latrine rumors!" he shouts into the speaker. "We are going to sue." Suddenly, he tells the Israelis he will aid the bond drive. "I always say yes. If I were a woman...
Sophocles wrote of an archer named Philoctetes, who was bitten by a serpent and whose wound would not heal. His countrymen were so discomforted by his injury and his anguished cries that they marooned the war hero on a desolate island. That is one way to deal with the suffering: remove them from sight. There are many like Philoctetes in America, citizens cast out from public consciousness because their medical problems seem too painful or costly to face. Among them: 37 million Americans who have no health insurance, a million young women too poor to provide adequate prenatal care...