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...driver in Lisbon, but when he got to Newark in 1974, he worked on a construction gang during the week and waited on tables weekends. Eventually, he saved enough money to buy a restaurant. "The building was really broken down and dirty," Simoes says, "but my wife and I rebuilt the whole thing and put in a private dining room and a barbecue in the back." After seven years, he sold the place for a $185,000 profit and returned to Lisbon to set himself and his brother up in business and live like a lord. But Simtoes was miserable...
...what do what are their goals? "To form a microrepublic," they joke. "We buy a few islands, then declare war on the U.S. Of course we lose the war, then are rebuilt by the U.S. with war reparations. Then we declare ourselves allied to the U.S. and get loans from the U.S. government. Once we have the loans, we populate the republic with natives...
Actually, it is entirely his responsibility, in that the decision to call on the CRR rested in his hands Spence should stop apologizing for the unfortunate decision and own up to his mistake. He must not continue to apologize for the decisions of a committee that he has rebuilt for speed...
...they had to make the Pentagon share in the sacrifice. All those tales of military extravagance, of $400 hammers and $600 toilet seats, had taken a toll. A / feeling had grown too that after years of rapid increases in military spending under Reagan, U.S. fighting strength had been adequately rebuilt...
...horrible things. As was customary at the time, I was in one of those groups that put out fires after bombing raids. I can still show you the house where at the age of 13 I had to dig bodies out from under the rubble. The house has been rebuilt, but I still think of that day whenever I drive past it. At the age of 15, only 18 days before Germany surrendered, I was asked if I wanted to join the SS. I could refuse because of my age. But they hanged a boy from a tree...