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Osicala lives by elaborate charades, invented to disguise actions and conceal motives. A man was kidnaped one night by los muchachos (the boys), as the guerrillas are known, and ordered to drive them five miles in his truck. When he returned to Osicala at dawn, he told his neighbors that the rebels had given him a shot of a mysterious serum so that he would not remember anything. During a guerrilla attack in January, two guerrillas were killed outside a house in the village. Because of the intense fighting, says one resident, they were buried in the garden rather than...
Even by the efficient standards of the South African military, the operation was brutal. After dawn, 43 heavily armed troops of South Africa's seasoned, mostly black 32nd Battalion were airlifted across the Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...
...both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
...group decided to visit the Union at the crack of dawn for "maximum effect," Dent said. "WE figured anyone who would apply to North House would eat breakfast at eight...
...Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science has also been flooded with calls. Monday they received more than 50, museum official Bob Burnston said. Museum workers taking the calls have explained that the planets, when most nearly aligned before dawn today, were grouped within a 98-degree quadrant around the sun and that even perfect alignment would cause only a one millimeter tide on the sun. Burnston said...