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...stories Baker has recorded bring to mind a phrase used in bitter irony by draftees in Viet Nam, who hoped to survive their tours and return to what they called "the world." The officers quoted here may return to the world after duty hours, but they sure don't work there. "My job was photographing dead people, and taking their fingerprints," one of Baker's cops says. "Holding dead hands, breaking off the fingers when they're too stiff to manage...
Waite's mission was not made easier by the explosion of renewed violence in Lebanon. Flying cover for a routine patrol in the Bekaa Valley, Israeli F-15s shot down two threatening Syrian MiG-23Ss over Syrian territory. In West Beirut, tanks and rockets were being used in the bitter fighting between the Druze militia of Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and its erstwhile ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri. By Friday, police estimated that 44 people had been killed and 200 wounded...
Welch had his own way with similes: he described people "like bottles walking; their heads as inexpressive as round stoppers. What if some god or giant should bend down and take several of the stoppers out? I thought. Inside there would be black churning depths like bile, or bitter medicine." But it is his wary view of the adult world that lingers. Even a Punch and Judy show has an ominous significance: when Punch "began hitting the baby with hard wooden thuds I felt its skull crack and knew that none of us were safe while grown-ups thought that...
...early November from the Veterans Administration with $500 down, said he was stunned that anyone could be so vilified for the color of his skin. "In this day and age," said he, "you shouldn't have any of this." When civil rights leaders urged him not to succumb, a bitter Williams sadly exclaimed, "They don't have to live here! They're encouraging us, but they're sleeping while we're watching our backs...
...bicycles, stereos and followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pull away from the main gate of the guru's now defunct commune in the remote hills of Oregon. Since the Rajneesh pleaded guilty to a federal charge of immigration violation and departed last month for India, after firing a bitter parting shot at the U.S. ("I never want to return"), his 1,300 disciples have been scattering like college students at the end of term...