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...neatly plugged potholes along Grenada's twisting dirt roads are a testimony to U.S. aid. Less visible but more ample is the American effort to help fill the Caribbean island's political vacuum before all but several hundred of the remaining 3,000 U.S. troops pull out for good this month...
Hunter S. Thompson as war correspondent? Damn straight. Just as soon as he finds a decent room. He hates dirt, and went through four hotels before finding one with hot water. With his trademark cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also...
...against each other. The leader of the Wheels had a relative playing for Camden and was not inclined to miss a game. "At the beginning of the third quarter, the shooting broke out," Rozier says. "It sounded like caps at first. Then there was smoke. We all hit the dirt. Both teams were face down around the 12-yd. line. The stands emptied. People were screaming. Babies were getting stepped on. Just as in the movie Black Sunday." Nebraska struck Rozier as a quiet place to play football...
...stand guard with fully loaded guns. Some of those who had been based in Beirut were being billeted on American ships and ferried ashore by helicopters. Others were hard at work building new fortifications. Most guard posts were being reinforced and rearmed. Six-foot-high mounds of dirt, rows of tar-filled steel drums, sandbags and concertina wire blocked off the entrance to the Marine compound. Ironically, the little-used route through the parking lot that had been followed by a suicide bomber on Oct. 23, killing more than 230 U.S. servicemen, became the only approach to the headquarters. Heaps...
Although army helicopters arrived within two hours of the quake to begin evacuating the wounded, many who endured the initial shock may have suffocated to death. Further aggravating rescue efforts, the narrow dirt road that links Muratbagi to the outside world was blocked for hours by landslides. By the time rescue workers from the Swiss Disaster Relief brought in 15 specially trained dogs to sniff out more victims, most of those unearthed had stopped breathing...