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During the next hour, 100 South African commandos who had crept across the border only a few hundred yards away fanned out along the streets, seeking out targets. Meeting no opposition from Lesotho's tiny 2,000-man paramilitary force, they blasted their way through at least a dozen homes. By morning the body count was 42; of the dead, 30 were believed to be members of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a black nationalist organization dedicated to overthrowing the white minority government of South Africa. The remaining victims were Lesotho residents, including five women and two children. Their...
Slowly, Pisar crept across the floor, past people who were too benumbed to notice. Reaching the pail, he began scrubbing the floor vigorously--scrubbing and drying and inching his way toward the door. Called back by the guards to clean a corner for the second time, he resumed his slow progress to the door. Reaching it at last he arose and walked toward the barracks, losing himself once more in the anonymity of the camp. He was just 15 years...
People behave in odd and unaccountable ways during fires. Such holocausts can still instill strange hilarity in some, or make even the most trained and disciplined person break down. One of our neighbors--another old-timer--served cocktails on the veranda as the fire crept over the hill. Another nearby resident, an experienced stewardess, drove while-eyed and panic-stricken down the hill in the family's only car, leaving her husband, her daughter and her horses stranded in the path of the oncoming flames...
...will leave the University with nary an ounce of Big Green satisfaction Harvard's present losing streak is a far cry from the way the Crimson started its series with Dartmouth Harvard won the first 16 games between the two schools all by shutout Since that time Dartmouth has crept up rapidly, now trading in the lifetime series by a 45-37 count if our ties...
...arranging for services that would be needed in the Persian Gulf region and at other points along the route to freedom, which we prayed would soon be taken by the hostages. Hundreds of U.S. and other officials were waiting for the final move of the cumbersome negotiating mechanism. It crept slowly, haltingly, sometimes in reverse, and its progress, or lack of it, was nerve-racking...