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...Swede standing on his head. Shocking? Not a bit, for over the past four years the residents of this tiny West African nation have shrugged off the sight of Swedes-nude or clothed -who each winter desert their frosty homeland for a gambol on Gambia's beautiful white sand beaches. As a travel brochure puts it: "If you like, you can swim nude alone-so huge are the beaches and so few are the tourists...
...Israelis finally explained the disastrous Abu Zabal bombing as "an incredible coincidence." The pilot was approaching the target at high speed and evading antiaircraft fire when his radar bombsight failed. While seeking his target visually, he saw reference points-an Arab village, long, low buildings, sand dunes and a road intersection -that looked exactly like those he had been told to look for as he approached a military base at Khanka. Actually, they were identical to features in Abu Zabal, two miles away from the intended target...
...tells the marks that they are five years old. Ten seconds later the crowd is howling. These zombies are crawling around on hands and knees on stage, playing in imaginary sand. Dan is the playground bully: he is telling all the others where to play, he's pushing the girls around, he's making fists at the other kids. There is no doubt that Dan is the star of the stars tonight...
...Scots destroyed Rommell's army in North Africa during World War Two in a sneak attack at night. Bagpipers were lined up as far as one could see in either direction across the moonlit desert. And suddenly, on signal, they began playing, marching out across the sand in their kilts to the sound of ferocious black drums and wailing bagpipes, which, it is said terrified the Germans, who had never heard that sound before...
...abortion he had arranged ? and made necessary ? the drugs he took, the lousy pic- tures he made. He claimed that when he first viewed Tammy and the Doc- tor, he vomited. The bombing of The Victors and Lilith did not sweeten a pesonality that seemed to have sand under its skin. Reality was to be fled; Peter became the acidhead of the house. "In those days, it wasn't an il legal drug," he says. "It was pure, non-chromosome-breaking, non-habit-forming, nondangerous. So I dropped 500 micrograms and never came back...