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...when the daylight comes the eye is trained to see only what it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LITANY FOR CITIZENS | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...Central. I begin to long for a benevolent dictator. It is announced that we are spending as much money on cigarettes as food. I wonder as I look about me whether Lenin was as concerned with the breast size of his revolutionary cohorts as I am. It is now daylight savings time; under all the clocks are signs saying "it's later than you think...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Stories of executions by the Tonton Macoute are common. Recently, after a Haitian citizen had been murdered in broad daylight, a judge ruled that he had died a natural death. As one of the characters in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians remarks, "Violent deaths are natural deaths in Haiti...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: A View of Haiti | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

...stands alone, dwarfed by the stunning poverty of the land, the fascism of Papa Doc, and the terrorism of the Tonton Macoute--more sobering monuments to what man actually does.Stories of executions by the TONTON MACOUTE are common. Recently, after a Haitian citizen had been murdered on broad daylight, a judge ruled that he had died a natural death...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: A View of Haiti | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

...pose as normal Vietnamese going about their jobs. The chief mission of such agents is to try to turn the resentment of the Saigonese against the government and the Americans, charging them with the destruction of the city after the V.C. invasion. Meanwhile, V.C. assassination squads operate in broad daylight. The results of their handiwork turn up-hands bound and bodies mutilated-in the river. The V.C. have been active in Saigon for years but, in a city under siege, their presence is more unnerving than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Saigon Under Siege | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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