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Steel bridges were reduced to twisted ruins as if shelled by flocks of F-111's. Empty hulks with blackened windows remained where entire blocks of the downtown area had been burned out. National Guardsmen in muddy Jeeps patrolled the streets and MP's directed traffic through intersections choked with mud. Most grotesquely, twisted and mangled mannequins lying outside shattered store windows grimly suggested the carnage of a beseiged city...
However, it is far from clear that Orwell would not have enlisted in the cultural cold war, at least at the outset. The evidence is maddeningly contradictory. Orwell engaged in a little red-baiting feud with Konni Zilliacus, a Labour MP, whom he called a "crypto-Communist," a follower of the Soviet line who was, therefore, an enemy of democracy; at the same time, he refused to support a protest against Soviet actions in Eastern Europe because it did not also protest British actions in Greece. In an attack on Zilliacus, he wrote, "the only big political questions...
...blacks descended on another bus and ejected a white couple, but they in turn were run off by a black military policeman. Later the black soldiers began filing back to their barracks; their number grew as they paraded past the officers' quarters. Then an off-duty white MP who found himself driving in their midst panicked and sped off, knocking down five women. None was seriously injured, but by then the crowd had grown ugly. A white worker who wandered out at the wrong time was severely beaten, as one black admitted later, "just because he was white...
...dismissal from the Army and loss of pay were upheld by Connor, but the Army will continue to pay for his rent, food and utilities in the private apartment at Fort Benning that is considered the legal equivalent of a cell. There, under the relaxed guard of a single MP, with a color television set and regular visits from his girl friend Anne Moore to help him pass the time, the Charlie Company platoon leader who led his men into a small hamlet called My Lai more than three years ago serves his imprisonment...
...Five MP's in two cars responded to Ciccolella's call and took Font to the military police station. After four hours during which he was not allowed to call his lawyer, Font was told that he had not been arrested, only "detained." He was released with severe restrictions placed on his movements and activities...