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Later that day Radio Viloco called a meeting for the next morning in Curawara, the central hamlet of the valley. The approximately 5000 campesinos of this region speak Aymara, an Indian language, as a first language. They save a portion of their agricultural produce for their own consumption and carry the rest to Viloco and to La Paz for sale in the urban markets...
Their concern was premature. True, the big pale-eyed detective sometimes sounds more like Hamlet than Hammett: "You spend too much time in the wings, watching your performance," a friend comments. But once McGee starts investigating a pair of murders, he forgets his complaints long enough to provide high and exuberant entertainment. Initially, he inherits half of a sinister motorcycle shop. The other 50% is owned by an Indian girl called Mits. A renegade biker leads Travis to a drugged producer filming balloon races. On location, he narrowly escapes a mob attack on the crew-seems the technicians had been...
...already high when Black Troop, a unit of Salvadoran cavalry, moved out of Palo Grande, a tiny hamlet near the Guazapa volcano. The troop, comprising three squads of 25 men each, was commanded by Captain Juan Vicente, 29, a tall, taciturn veteran. The soldiers left their three small French Pan-hard armored cars parked beside the village church and began climbing slowly toward a suspected guerrilla base on a distant hillside...
...Hamlet's mother said, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." (That's III, ii, 242, sports fans.) None of the comparisons are too obvious, but, at least in composite, Cross seems to have several Cantabridgian faculty members in mind. In cowardly deference to my own academic (and perhaps physical) safety. I will say only that I think the comparisons exist and leave the conclusions to perceptive readers of Death in a Tenured Position. They will enjoy the assignment; Cross has suited action to word and word to action in a delightful book that flows trippingly on the tongue...
...first soldiers into action would probably come from the Soviet units already stationed inside the country as part of the Warsaw Pact force facing NATO across Central Europe. The Soviet troops, which are estimated to number 40,000, are concentrated in two locations, in the northwest near the rural hamlet of Borne and in the southwest at Legnica, a city of 75,000, where their main headquarters is situated. Each base accommodates a tank division of about 10,000 troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other vehicles. These armored combat forces also include...