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...Gardner?s first bone of contention involves an incident that took place on the morning of December 29, 1968. PCF-44 was in a small canal just off the Co Chien River. They had been probing the waterway with another Swift boat on a minor Operation SEALORDS raid and on their way back had come under enemy fire. ?We went into a dangerous area that had numerous hooches and sampans,? Wasser recalled. ?The enemy was thick. Once we got in the canal we took a lot of small arms fire, followed by mortar. Our adrenaline was racing; we went right...
...recounted in Tour of Duty by Kerry, Gardner had shouted: ?There?s somebody running over there?He?s got a gun?on the port side, on the port side!? PCF-44?s crew had been firing at thatched huts on their way out of the canal, and the reports of their own guns had muffled those of the shots being fired at them. Suddenly, Gardner shrieked, ?I?m hit,? and stopped firing for a moment. Before Kerry could ask his condition, Gardner shouted from his post: ?I?ll be okay,? and went back to firing...
...When told of Gardner?s criticism of Kerry?s order, all of PCF-44?s other crewmen disagreed with the tough talking South Carolinian?s assessment. ?Kerry made the right command decision,? Wasser, second in command of PCF-44, maintains. ?We went into a 30 or 40 yard wide canal, suppressed enemy fire and got out of there before we were killed. You just don?t hang around to get shot at. Gardner doesn?t know what he is talking about...
...Zealanders equal - or do Maori deserve special status? The question nags at the nation like a toothache. But in militantly harmonious New Zealand, probing it can be painful. Most non-Maori would rather have root-canal work than be called a racist. But when Don Brash became leader of the conservative National Party in October, he thought the country "desperately needed to have an adult discussion" about race. So the former Reserve Bank governor, whose wife is a Chinese New Zealander, gave it one. In a speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty...
...European cinema lacks funds; on the contrary, many European films are government-subsidized in ways that Hollywood can only envy. France - Europe's largest producer thanks to a bevy of national, regional and European subsidies along with investment from cable TV station Canal Plus - makes an average of 200 films a year. Between 1994 and March 2003, the Italian government spent €340 million on 232 films (although those films grossed a mere €73 million at Italy's box offices). The German Federal Film Board has around €75 million to play with. And in Britain, the U.K. Film...