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...nearest town--and telephone--is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of role reversal. The local Kenyan kids--shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue--stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...nearest town - and telephone - is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of role reversal. The local Kenyan kids - shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue - stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...lavish, considering that we had been only reporting, not fighting. Yet 18 correspondents did die in the war, and seeing their names memorialized in bronze evoked thoughts of the luck that had saved us from having our own names listed there too--a ride not taken in a jeep that hit a mine, killing two correspondents; the shuttle back from Japan not boarded that went down in the sea, killing another...
...what I could carry--a few clothes, an Oriental scroll my wife had given me for my birthday--came on the third day of the war. North Korean planes, Soviet-built Yaks, had strafed the afternoon before, and our house was deserted, the servants gone. At the embassy, two jeep convoys were forming , one to join the American military advisers who were with what remained of the South Korean army, the other to find the government, which had evaporated. I was to have joined this group, but to my dismay, it had already left; perhaps I had taken too long...
Early on the morning of Sept. 18, Collin Burton stopped at Central Sqaure's Hi-Fi Pizza on his way home from a night in Harvard Square. According to police reports, after an argument with the occupants of a green Ford Bronco, Burton banged his fist on the jeep's hood. The Bronco's passenger fired once into Burton's chest. He died the following morning...