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...Western World, commingling geometry, Hebrew characters and dislocated figures in iconographic puzzles, were rejected as not naturalistic enough by the Moscow Art Theater. And so, having rejected all the isms of Paris, Chagall found himself rejected by Communism. In 1922, Chagall left Russia with $20, clad in khaki trousers provided by Hoover relief. Bella and his six-year-old daughter Ida followed. He never returned...
...National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. After repeated messages, Phat finally arrived at the camp after Okamura had languished there more than a month. He was a short, wiry man with piercing eyes, a thin mustache and a crew cut, wearing a well-tailored khaki shirt and trousers, plus the standard "Ho Chi Minh sandals," cut from old tires. When Okamura complained that he had been robbed of his cameras, lied to and starved, Phat replied: "You have been lucky. We allow you five piasters (6½?) a day for your food. For our own soldiers...
Mortar and howitzer shells crunched into military compounds, while Viet Cong riflemen, clad only in khaki shorts, swept into the heart of the village. Setting up machine guns and 57-mm. recoilless rifles on an open helicopter pad, they slashed at the barracks, mess halls and headquarters of the Songbe garrison. Said one American survivor: "It looked like the Fourth of July." Five Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded...
...without regard for the fleeing troops on foot. None would stop for Wheeler and his wounded cargo. "I'd give him a drink of water, and it would come out his throat," Wheeler told fellow reporters later. "We could see the Veecee coming across the paddies-some in khaki, some in mustard yellow, some in black pajamas. They were traveling light and were freshly rested. We were dead tired...
...sealing the borders, Hoare planned to end the flood of Communist-bloc arms pouring into the Congo. Going the other way were picked bands of Simbas wearing their monkey-skin headdresses. Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers...