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...worse. The Dayaks, rumored to possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire Madurese villages, dismembering their victims and eating them. In the town of Sambas, he finds Dayaks cooking human thighs over a fire. One man offers him a chunk of human meat?"gray, fibrous"?impaled on a wooden stick like a kebab. Lloyd Parry refuses, but he can't stop himself from asking the essential question. The answer is predictably gruesome: it's delicious, they say. Like chicken...
...most daring protest yet. The ship narrowly escaped being captured, but seven Greenpeace members, six Americans and one Canadian, were detained by Soviet authorities ... Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the [International Whaling Commission's] recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, THE RAINBOW WARRIOR STEAMED ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT TO THE SIBERIAN WHALING VILLAGE OF LORINO. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six ... Minutes later...
...Republican loyalist and canny political strategist, C. Boyden Gray has been quite busy lately. The former White House counsel to the first President Bush heads up the Committee for Justice, an advocacy group that has worked closely with the White House to push Bush 2's most controversial judicial nominees through the Senate. John Podesta has been busy too. The former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who today leads the liberal Center for American Progress has worked hard to foil Gray. Yet even as the two party generals square off in a battle that has roiled the Senate...
Deep Throat tells Woodward that former Nixon campaign chairman John Mitchell and White House special counsel Charles Colson financed Hunt and Liddy's operation. Deep Throat confirms that Gray, below, destroyed files from Hunt's safe at the White House's direction. Gray withdraws his name from Senate consideration for the director's post and exits the FBI. Felt once again hopes to get the director's seat, but the job goes to William Ruckelshaus instead...
...that Felt or another top FBI official was the one who had leaked to Woodward as a way to protect his beloved FBI from Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover had its problems with autocratic control and operations outside the normal bounds...