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...police roared past her on dirt bikes, heading for a young man who had stepped off a path onto the grass. They slid the bikes in front of and behind the boy, and told him sternly, repeatedly, to get back on the gravel trail...
...human tide, surging toward Namdaemun, the city's Great South Gate, and I inched my jeep through it, fighting back an almost uncontrollable urge to jump out and hide somewhere. But at a crossroads, the others were waiting, and we pushed on into open country, along the rough gravel road snaking between paddy fields. Late that day, near Taejon, some 90 miles below Seoul, we spotted a jeep approaching. Perched in the back was the South Korean Defense Minister; Korea's autocratic old President, Syngman Rhee, could not be too far away...
Near the town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...
...ruling and her options for taking Elian from the Miami house, Reno said she had to prepare for the worst: that there might be guns in the house, or in the crowds outside; that old women would throw themselves in front of federal vehicles; that dump trucks filled with gravel would block intersections. The INS team wanted to go in before dawn, but Reno worried about the image of a nighttime raid. So grim was the picture the Attorney General was painting, it appeared to the aides that she would prefer to wait some more...
...W/THE GRAVEL PIT, LUNAR PLEXUS, THE SHEILA DIVINE, FLEXIE...