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...tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against the shattered tree trunks beyond...
...Blank Check...
Distributors of the petition emphasized that it is "not a blank check" for the President, but only an approval of his current policies. They also affirmed the right of dissenters to protest...
...this ranking is the crux of the whole system. A voter may list as many candidates as he wishes as long as there is a clear preferential order. The ballots are then distributed into piles according to those who have received the "number one vote" on each blank...
...youths demanded his wallet and took $2 and a blank check from it. They replaced the blank check and returned the wallet. They then told him to continue over the Bridge...