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...avail myself of the protections provided by that same Constitution that I have fought to support and defend." Democrat Thomas Lantos pledged to contribute to an Ollie North defense fund being set up by Annapolis classmates, and Republican Robert Dornan, in praise of North's patriotism, paraphrased a rollicking Rudyard Kipling ditty: "He's Ollie this and he's Ollie that. Get 'im out of here, the brute./ But he's the savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot...
Viet Nam had a genius for surprise, an exquisite gift for defeating ! expectations. Rudyard Kipling once issued a sort of regional warning about that: "And the end of the fight is a tombstone white/ with the name of the late deceased,/ And the epitaph drear: 'A Fool lies here who/ tried to hustle the East...
...loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later, a punk rocker named Jello Biafra ran for mayor and finished fourth among ten candidates. Rudyard Kipling wrote that San Francisco was "a mad city-inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty." He liked it. Other American cities had their rambunctious phases, but San Francisco (pop. 706,000) never left its adolescence entirely behind...
History gives cigars their just place in civilization. Without his huge Jamaican cigars, Winston Churchill might not have led the Allies to victory in World War II. Wrote Churchill's fellow Brit, Rudyard Kipling, who, like Churchill, got his start in the wars in India: "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...
...most famously invoked during the Grenada invasion, when a total of 300 police and soldiers from six islands were sent to support the 8,000 U.S. fighting troops. Champions of the proposed regional defense force insist that it would include no more than 1,000 troops, but Barbadian Brigadier Rudyard Lewis, the regional security coordinator, has already suggested that the contingent should have as many as 1,800 men. An informed Barbadian analyst predicts that the final tab for such a force could amount to almost $100 million over five years...