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...Bible, both Luke and Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold both the sighted and the sightless, and the world into which she leads the reader would seem simply nightmarish if it did not also ring simply true...
...blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.-Matthew 15:14-Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?-Luke...
...Arab assassin squads, who had crept north from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. Submachine guns thundered in the room, and ten-year-olds went down in windrows. Three boys and a teacher died almost instantly; three others fell badly wounded. Others jumped out of windows, took shelter in a ditch. The killers fled. It was minutes before a teacher broke open the lock on the school telephone and called police...
Cries for Blood. The Indonesian government was convinced that many Dutchmen were supporting rebel groups in the hills in a last-ditch fight against the new republic. In January 1954 it began to round up about 30 Dutch suspects, and Jungschlaeger was arrested and thrown in jail. Thirteen months later, he was haled into a dirty, steaming courtroom in Djakarta and charged with leading and supplying two terrorist bands of rebels, with the help of the U.S. embassy, the British, and assorted Dutch agencies. The prosecutor asked the death penalty...
...Minnesota miracle was indeed a devastating blow to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor leadership. Before the primary, the Minnesota organization was considered the brightest jewel in the new Democratic crown. But Humphrey and Freeman had committed themselves fully to Stevenson, and the defeat left their machine in the ditch...