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...plant, which bears 40 to 50 artichokes. With an average of four mice per plant, the mouse population runs to well over 2,000 per acre. Fighting back against such hungry hordes, the farmers have resorted to aerial "bombing" of the fields with oats coated with a poison (zinc phosphide) that is strong enough to kill mice, too mild to hurt other wildlife. In one "Kill Mouse Day" last week, planes swooped down and dropped 46,000 lbs. of poisoned oats, which left countless casualties on the surface, others in their burrows...
Babe's jogging insight is thus reflected in the careful contrivances of plot elements. The dialogue is truly gifted for its dramatically effective journalism and in addition there is Babe's irresistable sense of wit, a dark and noxious poison that one sniffs for the resulting quiver...
...promising son to academies in Paoting and Tokyo, Japan. When she died in 1921, the fast-rising young Chiang matched her devotion by building her an elaborate tomb in the eastern China mountain village of Chikow, where the family lived. Last week, calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed it to rubble. That particular act of barbarism, as Peking saw it, "marks a great victory for the thought of Mao Tse-tung...
...advantage." The government points out that the Biafrans, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment, says Biafran Chief Justice Louis Mbanefo, "we would not touch...
...Hersey has fashioned a book, The Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; the subtle poison of racist thinking by 'decent' men who deny that they are racists; the societal limbo into which so many young black men have been driven ever since slavery; ambiguous justice in the courts; the devastation in both black and white lives that follows violence...