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...them. Then I went on up the creek some more and three of them jumped up. They looked like they were going to shoot, so I put my rifle on them. They all took off running so I shot them. I saw five of them around a little ditch. I shot four and the other jumped into the ditch. I went along through the woods then, and they kept jumping up and shooting and missing, and I kept shooting them...
With Collins applying public pressure, Mrs. Hicks would become the beleagured, last-ditch defender of the "neighborhood school," hoping to gain control of the city's finances in order to save the little white children of South Boston. Another road to profitable martyrdom would be a losing fight to repeal the Imbalance Bill...
...Would Be Mad." While Smith and his ministers talked on through the week, government radio and television stations were firing up the fervor for U.D.I, to a white heat. When Harold Wilson came up with a last-ditch proposal to send in a peace-keeping mission of "senior Commonwealth Prime Ministers," Smith's answer was that some of them might be black and that "we would be mad" to listen to "this sort of people." As telegrams from thousands of supporters poured in, there was little doubt that the overwhelming majority of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites wanted...
...Negro sergeant was sprawled in a ditch full of water. Over the steady drumfire of the rain came the cough, whoosh, crump of Viet Cong mortars. The sergeant counted on his fingers the seconds from the time of firing to the time of detonation, then lit a drooping wet cigarette and casually announced "Them's incoming sixties landin' over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin...
...week's end state courts moved to grant Patterson's requests for injunctions. But the Justice Department is fully prepared to take the case into the federal courts. There the last legal ditch will almost certainly be so deep that even the most intransigent Southerner will have to agree that Governor Johnson was right: there is no relief in sight...