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...time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work." But the people's thanks, under the new Communist regime, consisted only in tossing his unblessed body into an irrigation ditch...
Last month a sick villager of Co Bi went to the scene of the digging and told the authorities: "I have tuberculosis, and I'm going to die. Now I can tell the truth." Showing how the stream of the irrigation ditch into which Khoi's body was dumped had changed its course, he pointed out the real grave. Twelve feet deep, the diggers found the bodies of Khoi and his son, easily identified by a set of gold teeth and a belt buckle...
...much of Bridey's story, Ruth Simmons is remarkably precise in "reliving" her previous "incarnation," e.g., she calls herself the daughter of a Protestant barrister, tells how she married a Roman Catholic ("Father John had the banns published") and hovered at her own funeral ("I watched them ditch my body...
...small Briton, two-year-old Abraham McKillop of Dumbartonshire, had a miraculous escape when he was found covered with snow after 16 hours in a frozen ditch, and thawed out unharmed. But not everybody was so fortunate. All in all, the cold weather claimed at least 140 lives...
Gronchi, a handsome, greying man of 68 who was chosen President last spring, pleasantly explained to Stevens how he would go about arranging the "opening to the left." First he would ditch the Christian Democrats' small but stout allies, the Liberals (the nearest Italian equivalent to a free-enterprise party). They are a good, democratic right-wing group, Gronchi conceded, but there is no place for them in the "progressivist government" he envisages for Italy. Dropping them would leave the Christian Democrats in need of votes to command a majority, and Stevens asked where they would come from...