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President Bosch had entered office last February amid emotional hopes. A left-of-center intellectual and a longtime enemy of the brutal Trujillo dictatorship, he announced sweeping plans for reform. He put an end to the country's police-state atmosphere, cut government spending, and made a start on agrarian reform. But he proved to be an inept politician, stubbornly refusing to compromise. He failed to win over the powerful military. And that ultimately proved his undoing...
...variation of tone largely explains his success. He combines the simple narration of a boy's adventure story ("Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in"), Biblical phrases which suggest the allegory ("The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her") and brutal statements which leave no doubt about the allegory ("Piggy glanced nervously into hell"). His style features effective personifications -- take "the lagoon attacked them" and "the laughter beat them...
...Cong army. But it was heartening to U.S. military observers, who on many past occasions had watched the government's troops refuse to press their attack. This time the relief column had stood its ground under the Viet Cong pounding and then moved in on the Reds in brutal combat...
...army on its side-the U.S. formally absolved South Viet Nam's military leaders of responsibility in Nhu's sacking of the Buddhist temples. In an unusually sharp statement, Washington said that the generals were "not aware of the plans to attack the pagodas, much less the brutal manner in which they were carried out." Saigon bitterly denied the Washington statement, produced a document signed by army leaders to the effect that they had asked "the government to take the action it did." Top U.S. intelligence officials countered that army leaders had been coerced into signing the document...
...starred in 57 films, and is universally known as Yu-Chan. Yu-Chan is an idol in more than the usual sense. To some degree, he is almost a religious figure. He always plays a contemporary youth, romantically flaming, challenging established authority, and winning the girls against brutal odds. In one picture inspired by John Steinbeck's East of Eden, he had the same kind of rebel role played in the American movie by James Dean...