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Sukarno may be a bumbling administrator, but he is an expert on survival. With the help of one crack but overworked regiment of paratroopers, he quickly routed the Sumatran rebels in half a dozen brief and mostly bloodless battles, and drove the remnants into the hills. In the other islands, Sukarno sent troops against diehard colonels and won submission from pliable ones by giving them a free hand in running their areas once they had given him their allegiance. He also quietly redressed many of the economic grievances that had spurred the revolt...
...Communists did not try to enforce their 100-meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...
...architect." A major attraction of the house is the huge kitchen, which might have been lifted out of the pages of Gone With the Wind; it has no chrome or eye-level ovens, but an old gas stove large enough to have turned out food for a whole regiment of McClellan's troops. Actually, the kitchen does not get as much use as it might; because the press of his duties so often makes him miss dinner at home. Bobby Kennedy once a week herds Ethel and the children to a nearby Howard Johnson's for a family...
...justice, and a dubbed-in romance. To see how shallow they can be, one must compare them with the late Joyce Gary's African books, which may not seem attuned to the latest news, but which even today make the news more intelligible. Gary fought in the Nigeria Regiment in World War I, later served as a magistrate dealing with the everyday crises of tribal life. Out of this experience came Mister Johnson (published in 1939), by all odds the best novel ever written about Africa, and An American Visitor (issued in 1933 but only now published...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...