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...says Kerry. He claims that only after the firefight was over-and enemy fire had been supressed-did he order PCF-44 to head back to a primitive base at Dong Tam so Gardner could receive medical attention from the U.S. Army?s Third Surgical Division, based in a makeshift hospital there. But Gardner asserts that Kerry was simply fleeing the firefight. ?He wanted to get out of the river to save his own ass,? Gardner maintains. ?I was ready to keep going...
...office. Among the papers and cartons that were scattered on the wooden table sit five industrial packets of Jell-O, a dead giveaway that this wasn’t a typical corporate boardroom, but a place where food is paramount. The use of the table as a makeshift filing cabinet suggests that even those on the business side spend most of their time in the actual kitchen...
Eventually, he landed in Iraq and began work in Saddam’s former palace, which the U.S. government continues to use as a makeshift office space...
...Maneli. Leave the car and walk along the treated pine boardwalk that undulates through scrub-covered dunes. Roughly 15 minutes later you are overlooking the Atlantic. The beach below is not zoned, but nudists tend to go left, the clothed right. In summer there are a few chiringuitos - makeshift beach cafés - but it's easy to find sand and silence all for yourself. Only one building has been allowed on these cliffs: the hotel Cristóbal Colón Parador, built in the 1960s. This near-virgin strip of protected beach stretches about 15 km, with...
...security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket and clothes in the raid, forcing him to keep warm in the dismally cold days that followed by building a tiny fire out of scraps of cardboard. Most of the petitioners' makeshift homes?built of plastic foam, plastic and tarp?were destroyed. Still, says Li, "[The petitioners] will be back. This is their only goal in life...