Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week--Six right, one wrong, one tie (which does not count for anything in my computations). Season's percentage...
...chief of the CIA's Far East division in Washington. He returned to Saigon in 1968 to take charge of the pacification effort, which included the notorious Phoenix program. By 1971, Phoenix had caused the deaths of 20,587 Viet Cong members and sympathizers, according to Colby's own count. He explains, however, that when he took over, a year after the program began, he "laid stress on capturing rather than killing." In discussing the victims, he claims that "87% were killed by regular military in skirmishes...
...pattern was all too familiar. Three men, armed with pistols and a grenade, strode into the French embassy in The Hague just before closing time and occupied the fourth floor of the modern concrete and glass building. Seizing eleven hostages, including French Ambassador Count Jacques Senard and several business executives, they issued a nonnegotiable demand: a comrade held in a French prison must be released or the hostages would be killed one by one, beginning at 3 next morning. The demand was scrawled in red ink on a piece of paper and tossed out a window. It was from...
...knows? Harvard may surprize this year. Perhaps it will overpower all comers. Or perhaps it will get licked with discouraging regularity. But don't count on it. I predict another roller-coaster season. I wouldn't want it any other way because by now I have become addicted to Crimson cliffhangers...
Roth likes his characters anyway because they don't realize this yet: the crumbling castle still conceals a beautiful secret. Even the paltriest character is at least a little more than a little heap of dust. And each can count on having this recognized, if not entirely by his social superiors, at least by the members of his own class...