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...sometimes intrudes. In 1965, the hospital was caught in crossfire between Viet Cong and Americans. Dr. Smith herded all her patients into the wards and got all but one, a boy in traction, onto the floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop...
...with Soviet and Chinese Communists, a stand that, among other reasons, eventually alienated him from his colleagues to the point where he fled the country in 1964 with $14 million in party funds and spent his hours plotting to overthrow first Ben Bella, and then his successor Boumediene; of bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown assassin; in Madrid...
...took a perfect play at 2:09 of the second period to break the stalemate of defenses and goalies. Ben Smith passed from the left corner to the point. Tom Micheletti returned the bullet pass, then Smith centered just as fast to Waldinger, who backhanded a sizzler from ten feet into the lower right corner of the cage...
...furiously against him. In the last reel, after taking a rueful part in the senseless slaughter of some Chinese peasants, Holman informs the captain that he is through with American militarism, that he is going to desert the colors and help the Chinese build a modern nation. A Chinese bullet prevents the project. "I was home," he gasps as he falls dead. "What the hell happened...
...attempts to starve out its enemies have hardly been more successful. Washington tried to topple Dictator Rafael Trujillo by refusing to buy Dominican sugar and cutting off his supply of oil and auto parts. But it was an assassin's bullet, not dollar pressure, that brought him down. Cuba's Fidel Castro, with massive support from Russia, has managed to survive six years of U.S. embargo. U.S. pressure to cut off all trade with Red China was another notable flop: Canada alone in the past six years has sold Peking a whopping $926 million worth of wheat...