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People on a Sandbar. In Hanoi last week, honoring the 37th anniversary of Russia's October Revolution, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed: "Today we have here in the East more than half the people in the world, together with the Soviet Union in the struggle . . . This is an extremely mighty force, which becomes mightier and mightier." Yet from North Viet Nam, since Geneva, about 450,000 Vietnamese have escaped through chinks in the new Viet Minh monolith, leaving the antiseptic tyranny of Uncle Ho for the South's cha otic freedom. The articulate among these huddles of refugees complain...
...that was left of their previous lives wrapped in cotton bundles, the refugees headed south - aware that their very act of leaving might be their death warrant if Uncle Ho ever caught up with them. Last week several thousand refugees, fleeing from the Communist interior, got trapped on a sandbar off the coast of North Viet Nam. Before them lay the sea. Behind them lay the Communist land of compulsory joy. In frail craft, the braver, stronger ones made it out to the three-mile limit, where a French aircraft carrier waited to pick them up and take them south...
...against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory. Six months later, Earthquake emerged from Communist China with a huge beard (they had taken his razor from him) and a cheerful account of life in a Communist jail. "The Communists went out of their way to treat me good," he said. His friends quipped that...
...Water and Dick Elwell's The Man Who Saved the World. Wentworth begins with a fairly commonplace event a spring flood. What make this deluge different is the appearance of an eighteenth century English ship which is looking for the Northwest Passage. The flood releases the ship from a sandbar and it floats into a town crew and all. I think Wentworth has gone much too far here. There is nothing at all funny about an eighteenth century ship; in fact the idea immediately suggests ghosts a possibility Wentworth never even mentions. His crew merely abandons ship purchases...
Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...