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...kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed so far), and last month a Russian-made Egyptian Ilyushin jet bomber attacking Najran inside Saudi Arabia nearly scored a direct hit on a U.N. platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least 900 workmen and technicians, who are constructing a new jet airport north of San'a. Recently, the Russians threw an inquiring U.N. inspector off the premises when he approached the airport to conduct a routine inspection. Apart from...
...bullets were chunks of brass curtain rod, which the women had sharpened by whetstone; the cartridges were loaded with a mixture of dynamite, amatol, and the flash powder from Chinese firecrackers. For every two men, there might be one obsolete rifle and 15 rounds of ammunition; with luck, a platoon would also sport several carbines or an automatic weapon. Yet these ragtag guerrilla forces, scattered across 36,000 square miles of mountain and malarial jungle, were able to tie down a large number of enemy units, kill 7,000 Japanese troops, and secure intelligence of the highest value. And here...
...Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most of all he hates modern man's "industrial civilization-a wilderness so arid and offensive that no organic life is possible within its limits." Sir Herbert indeed seems to have solved what George Orwell viewed as the crucial problem of the age: how to maintain...
...January the NCAA decreed that no more than two players could be sent in on change-of-possession plays in an effort to stop the Paul Dietxel-type platoon coaching that has become popular in contemporary football. The NCAA said it was attempting to help small colleges who could not pay for large football teams...
...dollar bounty when they are destroyed. His father sorrowfully and scornfully refuses. In a long and heartbreaking scene, uncluttered by more than a few words of dialogue, a bulldozer scoops a giant grave out of the grassland and the cattle are driven into it; then a platoon of men with shotguns and rifles stand around the edge and systematically shoot them dead. Hud, sardonically, fires the first shot...