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...still involved in fighting bad guys at home and Communism abroad. There is a back-burner struggle in Panama, where a plot is stewing to steal the canal. At the same time, America is escalating a hot war to protect its interests in an independent African territory called Gorotoland...
Sandals & Beards. The trigger that sets Drury's plot in motion is a revolution in the emerging African nation of Gorotoland. U.S. President Harley M. Hudson (the "Vice President" of Advise and Consent) cautions the insurgents against endangering American life and property there. But the rebels ignore him, kill 50 Americans and set fire to the local Standard Oil facilities. Hudson swiftly dispatches U.S. troops to Gorotoland, and goes on the air to tell the U.S.: "It was time to re-establish the fact that when America says something, she means it. Specifically, it was time to re-establish...
Nobody is more incensed than pompous Walter Dobius, whose philosophy is, simply, better Red than dead. The Administration has gone mad, he declares. He demands that the Gorotoland case be dealt with in the U.N. Finally, the U.N. Security Council does act on its own. In a scene described with skill and impressive authenticity, the Council debates the issue and is on the verge of censuring the U.S.-when the American delegation casts its first veto in history...
...cranks the new plot into action is His Royal Highness Terence ("Terrible Terry'') Wolowo Ajkaje, a 6-ft.-y-in. African native who is the ambitious leader of the British protectorate of Gorotoland. To make a name for himself, Terrible Terry pops up in South Carolina on the tense first day of school integration. Dressed in his tribal robes, he picks up a little Negro girl and touches off a riot by carrying her up the school steps through a blockading mob of screaming white harridans...
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