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...Indochina beyond the urban centers are "free-fire zones," where any moving person can be fail-game. In the late 1960s, brigade-size units regularly crunched through the countryside on search-and-destroy missions; during the same period, artillery laced patterns of "H & I" (harassment and interdiction) fire from dusk until dawn, throwing tons of shells at village crossroads that might-or might not -be used as routes for infiltration. Bombs still fall from unseen planes without warning; some inevitably land in the wrong place, others in the right place but on the wrong people. Bureaucratic demands for a show...
...demonstrators had gathered near dusk at Copley Square and marched down Boylston Street to the hotel hoping to meet the Vice President as he drove in from the airport. Agnew, however, arrived early, skirted the crowds and managed to avoid all but a single encounter with the people...
...peace rally last week in front of the White House gates was a thin shadow of those massive war marches that used to fill this city. A few hundred pathetic kids and their faded gurus broke some windows and shouted their slogans and then dissolved into the chill dusk. Fifty yards away, the secretaries of Henry Kissinger, the President's National Security Assistant, watched the scraggly crowd for a few minutes, then turned back to their work on the progress reports and the briefing papers about the invasion of Laos. Down the hall, an unruffled Richard Nixon made preparations...
...shoppers hurried home at dusk, they were startled to see two young men, aged 18 and 19, being marched through Belfast's Falls Road slum, heavily populated by Catholics. A group of angry members of the I.R.A. (the outlawed Irish Republican Army) tied the two boys to a lamppost and poured cold tar varnish and feathers over their shaved heads. Placards tied around the victims' necks proclaimed; "This man has been found guilty and confessed to breaking and entering. This sentence has been passed by the Republican movement...
...intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where she is mistress to the leader. Playground palaver is easy to ignore when at dusk in the arms of your lover you will play a pivotal role in a plot to blow up the George Washington Bridge...