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...surrender of the provinces was unutterable tragedy for the true victims of the war, the South Vietnamese people. Helped by retreating ARVN soldiers, upwards of half a million refugees trekked by military convoy, on motorcycle, buffalo cart, bicycle or foot toward areas still held by the government. Some 200,000 people fled Quang Tri and Hué for Danang (see box page 34). Hundreds of thousands from the Central Highlands streamed eastward toward the coast. In Military Region II, just south of fallen Darlac, the resort town of Dalat was rapidly being emptied, even though there seemed...
...equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything in the oil patch that isn't tied down." Hill adds that an experienced team of oilfield thieves can dismantle and cart off $20,000 worth of gear within two hours...
...Lumet shows us his cast assembling from all over the world to board the Orient Express at Istanbul. There's the involuntary shudder of pleasure when you recognize a regal Vanessa Redgrave sailing through a crowd of Turkish peddlers, as Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset airily overturn a huge cart of oranges and step up into their carriage. Best of all, the Orient Express itself billows out steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding out screams that are the counterpoint...
...people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves out of the hospital in a laundry cart-and then of course returned to Ewing Eight. He fell in love with a young nurse, and during his periods of parole they lived together with astonishing cheerfulness...
...night than most Chinese cities. So when I first realized I was lost there were lots of people out. But as I wandered in circles the streets became emptier, until at last there were just people who'd brought out mattresses to escape the heat and an occasional cart, collecting night-soil to take to the surrounding countryside. But I had a land-mark that kept me from getting more lost--a violinist, up on the fourth floor of the building I kept coming back to, practicing a piece I didn't recognize but which was indisputably Western and from...