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...home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout canoe or oxcart only to reach the hospital with fatally gangrenous wounds. Matter-of-factly, General Amkha observed that he had been asking for U.S. helicopters for the past two years, had received none...
...reaction finally went into action. Nineteen old-guard legislators caucused in Jackson, formed an anti-constitution committee. Named to head it were two longtime Coleman adversaries: Senate President Pro Tern Earl Evans Jr. as chairman and Representative Thompson McClellan as vice chairman. Behind their move was the fact that oxcart legislators from the Delta and Coleman's own hill counties are afraid that a new constitution will apportion them out of jobs and funnel more revenue to the fast-growing cities...
...particular affection. So far, the governor has not announced such an intention. But if Coleman does make the run, and does, as the odds would indicate, beat Eastland, nothing could better convince the rest of the U.S. that a thoroughly awakened Mississippi knows the difference between an 1890 oxcart and a 1957 Jet plane...
...most part, Operation Brotherhood concentrated on the estimated million refugees, many of whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse...
...essential and immediate problems susceptible of solution." As Royall talked, the delegates buzzed with surprise. "The speech had value in that it will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another, was that "of the oxcart, not the jet plane, age." Mrs. Lillian Ashe, president of New York City's United Parents Associations, gave a shot of adrenalin to the stock solution: "The assumption that there is only a limited amount of money for education and that we must do the best we can within these limitations...