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...tied behind their backs just above the elbows. They had been shot through the back of the head, the bullet coming ou through the mouth. The faces would have been difficult to recognize, but the day before 27 women from the village walked out three miles carrying mattocks to dig for their missing husbands and sons, having heard about this patch of disturbed earth near the roadside. Ostara told me that the enemy had come through on their way to Hué. They had taken 27 men. Some were leaders and some were younger, strong enough to be porters...
...usefulness ceased, or when they didn't cooperate they were shot for their trouble. Some of my staff were badly mutilated, but I am inclined to believe this was done after they were killed. Their hands were tied and they were shot behind the head. I helped to dig one body out, but I have been told by Vietnamese whom I respect that some people were buried alive...
...fellow of 25, Hendrix has been on the road a long time. The son of a Seattle landscape gardener, he dropped out of high school at 18, largely, he claims, because of a teacher who was "prejudiced" against him as a Negro. "I couldn't dig that scene very hard anyway," he says. By that time, he was learning the guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch. After a stint as a paratrooper, he toured the rhythm-and-blues circuit, working his way to Nashville, Harlem, Greenwich Village and finally London...
...Sahara, a wind-blown waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons voted to continue the Spanish Sahara's present territorial status...
...Israelis have strict rules forbidding amateur archaeologists from poking around the digs and carting off whatever strikes their fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders...