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...South Pacific island of Bougainville, a Japanese bullet came within a couple of corpuscles of ending his life at 25. A Marine first lieutenant, Freeman was leading a combat patrol of about 30 men through thick, enemy-rife jungle. From behind a tree about 40 ft. away, a Japanese soldier shot Freeman in the jaw. The bullet ripped through his throat, passing between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. Doctors doubted whether Freeman would ever be able to talk normally again, but he went through a prolonged course of speech therapy and, being an exceedingly determined man, developed into...
...Yemen, where he went deeper into royalist territory than any other U.S. correspondent. It was rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known to wear pants, and "your trousered correspondent" became an obvious target. De Carvalho emerged...
...weeks ago, four members of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were shot by Mississippi segregationists while trying to register Negroes to vote. One man nearly died of bullet wounds. SNCC's work had progressed to the point where they were registering as many as 200 people a day in one country, and evidently the segregationists were becoming frightened...
...could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal to love as the murderer's angry bullet. At the hotel in Madrid, Maria lies wrapped in "the odor of their dying love," listening to the sounds from the adjoining room as Claire prepares to receive Pierre in a love equally doomed to dissolution...
Without warning the Reds opened up on the two unarmed families in a withering blast of carbine and submachine-gun fire. Three-year-old Thomas Makil fell with a bullet in his leg, and slugs ripped through his four-month-old sister Janie's body into her father, killing them both. Elwood Jacobsen jerked backward and fell dead into the road. "I started hollering 'Elwood, Elwood,' " said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but I got no answer." In a flash, the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload of government troops lumbered into sight down the road...