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...people's will to resist. As General Giap has suggested, Communist strategy now envisages not one big Dienbienphu but a lot of small, frustrating engagements. Says Giap: "The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive and be caught in a dilemma; he has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological and political means to fight a long-drawn-out war." What the Communists hope for, clearly, is a Dienbienphu of the spirit...
...year-old switchboard girl named Olga Romero hurtled naked and screaming down the stairs of a building on busy East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx. In the vestibule, in plain sight of the street (the door was open), she lay screaming and bleeding, while a man struggled to drag her upstairs again. "Help me!" she cried again and again. "He raped me." Heads popped out of offices along the hallway, and a crowd of about 40 gathered outside to watch. No one made any move on her behalf. No one called the police. It was sheer chance that two officers...
...diamond-shaped pakpao, or female. Each has its special weapon. The chula sports five bamboo talons called champas (literally: fruit pickers), and the pakpao carries a long noose called a nhiang. The male kite tries to capture the female's control string in its talons and drag it to earth; the female tries to encircle the male with its noose and ride it to the ground...
...instrument is this extravaganza of plucking by Richard Rosmini, who plays everything in sight. The 12-string alone sounds like a guitar accompanying itself, but here Rosmini uses three other guitarists, plus Jazz Bassist Red Mitchell picking away stylishly at the likes of John Hardy, Jelly Roll, St. James Drag. No singing...
Besides playlets, Lennon provides teasingly evocative dramatic fragments. Sample: "Roger could visualise Anne in her flowing weddy drag, being wheeled up the aisle, smiling a blessing. He had butterfield in his stomarce as he fastened his bough tie and brushed his hairs. 'I hope I'm doing the right thing,' he thought looking in the mirror. 'Am I good enough for her?' Roger need not have worried because he was. 'Should I have flowers all round the spokes?' said Anne polishing her foot rest. 'Or should I keep it syble...