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...aided by normal police forces, were firing at and beating looters in the street. On the opposite side of the intersection a hatless soldier was casually aiming his rifle, not at a looter, but at a family of Indians watching the scene from a fourth-story apartment nearby. The bullet smashed over their heads. The soldier laughed, turned back down the street and shouldered his weapon...
...soon continued to the hospital where casualities were being brought in. One of the first was a soldier with a bullet fired clean through the chest. His agonized expression seemed to frame an ironic question about the value of his comrades' revolt. On Monday, four soldiers, six Arabs, and about a dozen African civilians were killed, all in "non-military" action...
...little, the young man packs his bag and clicks it shut-he is going away, far away. Smiling a little, he picks up a copy of The Great Gatsby, reads the last few pages, lays the book aside, picks up a revolver. Smiling a little, he puts a bullet through his heart...
...bitterest fighting was at the western edge of the village, where the attacking Greeks had the cover of gnarled olive trees. In one mud-brick hut, where nine Turks had taken refuge, a window was blasted by a bazooka-type rocket, and the second floor literally sieved with bullet holes. In desperation, one Turkish shepherd tried to flee to the riverbed, but was cut down a few feet from the door. Another grabbed a pitchfork, made a futile, one-man assault on the Greek position, and was mowed down at once...
...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint