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...military briefing from the local commander, a tall, soft-spoken captain. We called him "Killer" because journalists here believe that he was responsible for the massacre of 92 Vietnamese at Prasaut. We were heading toward Killer's office-he refused to give us his real name-but we decided first to visit the 200 Vietnamese men we had seen interned at the Takeo primary school two days earlier...
There are a few sympathetic characters and some quiet, even funny, stories. Moreover, in exploiting his vicious subjects, O'Hara implicitly exposes and condemns them. Kindness, fidelity and honesty are rarely portrayed-and of course never mentioned by name-but their rarity makes them all the pleasanter when encountered. Meanwhile O'Hara extracts all the flavor to be found in the manners and talk of U.S. types who have been hurt and hardened in a corrupt world...
...most Latin American countries Haya was little more than a name-but he was a name. As a student revolutionary he had passed through most of Central America as un unwelcome exile, suspected of Communism and feared for his wild talk of uniting South America's Indians. The U.S. had once picked him off a ship at Panama, sent him to Europe to get him out of the way. For 16 years he had been the leader of the underground opposition in Peru. Twice, his followers claimed, he had been elected president of Peru, if the ballots had been...
...really runs Switzerland is lady-killing Baron von Bibera, the German Minister." (No Minister is Freiherr Sigismund von Bibra-Lanius misspelled his name-but Botschaftsrat, i.e. Counsellor of Embassy; and Switzerland, independent since 1291, is still ruled by its seven-man Federal Council...
...Senator Shipstead sees the Farmer-Labor party dwindling around him; he is fast becoming a man without a party. Perhaps his next move will be to embrace Republicanism in name-but never in principle...
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