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...described Civil War nut. "I always thought American history was so dull," raved Carolyn Randolph, a retired schoolteacher in Livermore, Calif. "But I'm learning so much." Others regarded the show in more personal terms. One New York City woman unearthed an old photo of her great-grandfather, a colonel in the Union Army, and plans to scrutinize the series on tape to try to spot...
...steel grille clanked open with awful familiarity, and moments later, Colonel Nel, a dark-haired young man, smiling amiably, held out his hand. He looked too young to be a colonel, and I remembered the saying that we are getting old when policemen and doctors start looking like teenagers...
...given a comfortable chair and a fresh cup of tea, and wondered if this was how a returning Soviet dissident would feel on revisiting Lubyanka prison. As I talked with Colonel Nel, it seemed to me that the biggest change in Security Police thinking was the death of the old obsession that international communism was all powerful and that opponents of apartheid were putative communists if not actual paid agents of the Kremlin. The young colonel agreed. The whole approach was more sophisticated these days, he said, and the country faced a different set of perceived challenges embodied...
...asked after all my old enemies. Colonel Goosen? Dead. Colonel Van der Merwe? Retired. Captain Hansen? Transferred. Captain Schoeman? Somewhere up- country. I already knew that Lieut. Jan Marais, who had once mailed an acid-tainted T shirt to my five-year-old daughter Mary, had been found drowned in his own swimming pool...
...asked if I could have my old file as a souvenir, and Colonel Nel burst out laughing: "We don't even have it anymore!" Irrationally, I felt slightly peeved at being regarded as harmless so soon, but on balance was more than happy about it. As he walked me out to my car, he said, "Please drop in anytime. You're most welcome. Good luck...