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Death gangs run by the security forces are more visible in the countryside, where, as in Metalio, they can brutalize an entire town. Rivas and his men allegedly don civilian clothes and masks before conducting a nighttime hit, while other times they show up at a house in broad daylight and full uniform to take someone away for "questioning." A favorite dumping ground is a shallow estuary near by, but sometimes the burial technique is grislier. Several heads were once discovered stuffed in cloth bags and neatly aligned in a field, while the bodies were scattered around the town. Rivas...
...scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall, placed plates on cloth-covered tables and then returned to remove them. The drills were but one of many painstaking preparations for the "reciprocal banquet" President Reagan hosted in Peking last Saturday night...
...captured by the Paks so he can implement the plan. Soon the CIA gets into the act, as well as a Capitol Hill headline-seeker, a KGB mole in the White House, and an ex-leftist ex-CIA agent "with eyes like faded blueberry stains on a white table-cloth." Webster and a CIA killer with a heart of gold decide that GULFSCENE III must be stopped...
...American Revolution did not erupt overnight. A long series of protests, such as the Boston Tea Party and the Harvard graduation of 1768--all the graduates wore clothing made of American cloth--should have given the House of Commons ample warning of the unrest. Yet prejudice against the colonists and their abilities, and the false sense of superiority in the British government, created the blunders that caused the American revolution, Tuchman argues...
...comes the Sahara. Driving in the desert is like swimming in treacle. The engine screams and one inches forward with painful slowness. To stop can mean being delayed for hours, perhaps days. Suddenly a Toyota appears, followed by a truck. The wild-eyed leader, his pistol wrapped in a cloth, begs for gasoline, explaining that his small escadron has been driving all night...