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Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...minutes later Salvatore Giuliano lay dead, his upper body shattered by bullets. In his pocket was a package of mentholated cigarettes, a small flashlight and a photograph of himself...
Then the professor turned towards one wing of the Peabody's tiny stage, clapped, and commanded: "Here, Palomilla!" Palomilla nosed out from behind a curtain, a buzzing four-wheeled cart which doggedly trailed a flashlight held by Wiener's assistant. Palomilla made mistakes; it ran back into the curtain once and stalled often. But it acted with at least as much decision and far more speed than an earthworm...
...into the Indian camp by the smoke of a funeral pyre that signaled another death that day. The only visible signs of life were half-starved, whimpering dogs and wisps of smoke curling from tent tops. Inside the infested canvas tepees and unchinked log shelters, Miss Wilson's flashlight picked out three acutely ill Indians. Two of the victims had almost complete membranes covering their throats, slowly choking them to death. The third had just had a similar membrane removed by another Indian who had reached in with a pair of pliers, yanked it out and was proudly saving...
Finkelstein was walking with Miss Gans on the Concord Avenue side of the Observatory grounds when the three youths stopped them and threatened to strike Finkelstein with a flashlight if he did not hand over his valuables...