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...According to the U.D.A. one of the victims, a 26-year-old man with a limp, had been chased by a Saracen personnel carrier and deliberately crushed against the side of a house; the other, a 15-year-old boy, had been trapped and run over by a Land-Rover. According to the army, on the other hand, both had been accidentally hit during a riot. On the first night of the rioting, the U.D.A. set up flower shrines, each covered with the Ulster flag, at the places where the two victims had been killed. On one of the shrines...
Promptly at 5 a.m. the soldiers moved off. The first column, on foot, made its way up a little-used Land Rover track through the swamps, waded across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital...
...team MVP, and Captain Dave Ignacio no longer occupies the rover back position, but his replacement, hard-hitting veteran Steve Golden, should make the most of a rover back's many opportunities to flatten opposing runners and receivers (Ignacio led the team in tackies last year with 60, 19 more than his nearest competitor...
...ground. The defensive line was equally unmerciful to the Bruins, squashing the Brown running game and breaking through to dump Brown quarterbacks six times Harvard's All-Ivy defensive end. Junior Mitch Berger, usually led the charge, making seven lackles for the game. Steve Golden, in his new rover back position, was equally ferocious. Flattening Brown runners eight times...
...best parts of Hone's espionage novel have nothing to do with espionage. His hero, far from being the traditional gun-and-karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...