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...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...filled with the sound of machine gunfire. The convoy had come under ambush from a force of 80 to 100 contras hidden between trees on one side of the road and in back of barns on the other. Our driver skidded to a halt and dived out the door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from the mortar rounds landing near...
...cigar butt in Beeler's mouth leads to an argument about smoking on premises stocked with flammable merchandise. The appearance of Bullard's cousin Reverton is a piece of unfortunate timing. Rev is a bitter geezer who lies about being a railroad detective and carries a starter pistol to intimidate his enemies, meaning anyone not a relative. The gun is drawn on Beeler for his failure to convince his accusers that chewing on an inch of cold, wet cigar violates neither the spirit nor the letter of Bullard's no-smoking sign. One thing leads to another...
...nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging about her sophisticated life as a cashier in a movie theater. In truth...
...clean it up every nighttime. For years Rev had been one of the janitors at the county courthouse up in Way land. He had been let go after the accident, which had incapacitated him for some months ... For reasons of pride, and to justify his carrying the pistol, Rev let the family think him a railroad dick. He did live in Hamburg, in a fleabag hotel near the railroad yard, but whenever he wasn't down in Millville at, formerly, his cousin's store and now the Bullard house, he was in the public library, doing research into...