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With Arube dead, along with 70 other soldiers and civilians, the coup collapsed. By midafternoon, Big Daddy was touring the town in an open Jeep, waving happily to passersby. Then started the grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
Life in beleaguered Phnom-Penh was gradually returning to normal. For ten days the Cambodian capital had been spared the pounding of the Khmer Insurgents' artillery. Then suddenly, one day last week at midafternoon, captured American 105-mm. howitzers slammed 73 shells into the city in the worst attack in the history of that...
...humor Wright injects into his five cartoons a week is chiefly black. His work schedule is no laughing matter either. He gets to the office each day by 10 a.m., hoping to settle on a subject by noon and an idea of treatment by midafternoon. After showing a preliminary sketch to his editor, he often labors over the drawing past midnight to meet his 7 a.m. deadline. "I'm very slow," he says. "I've had no formal art training at all, so I'm still struggling with my style." Lacerating though he and some...
...quay, the wounded began arriving in midafternoon. All night long, they were loaded aboard old U.S. landing craft. By 4 in the morning, we were under way. There was no water or food aboard, nor were there any trained medical aides. A few men moaned and called out; one vomited blood and twisted in pain. Most suffered silently. At three points on the voyage, insurgents fired mortar and machine-gun rounds at the boats, providing a fearfully beautiful display of red and yellow flashes in the clear moonlight. By the time we arrived at Phnom-Penh, some...
...Shriver, Askew and Idaho Senator Frank Church. Humphrey immediately pushed Shriver but, he recalled, "George wanted to try Askew." McGovern placed a call to the Florida Governor, who was about to leave on vacation for North Carolina. Askew asked for time to consider, and McGovern reached him, again in midafternoon in Asheville, N.C. Askew then declined on grounds that there was too much he wanted to accomplish in Florida...