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...deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water. "If you took a coin, you could scrape away the wall," he said. Then, after 3½ hours on the stand, an exhausted Ellsberg walked to his defense table, plopped into a chair and wept...
Despite all the talk about detente, things are not settled at Pontiac. No one has yet been charged in the knifings during the mess-hall scrape, and between 25 and 30 cons believed to have been most involved are still isolated in a special cell unit. Petrilli has long been criticized by guards and others for working with the gangs instead of trying to break them up. But, he argues, "the gangs didn't form here. The men have their own leadership−they came in with it." He is still committed to the delicate task of trying...
...fast because "we're still at war. We're providing the ammunition and the supplies, and we're still bombing Laos." Some day he hopes to get back on a regular diet, says Gregory, and then he won't care who gets into a scrape or where: "I wouldn't give up eating again if they were fighting in my own house...
...fighter pilot, but resigned 20 months after getting his wings because junior pilots were suddenly transferred to desk jobs (no chance to fly jets!). He has worked at Douglas Aircraft ("wall-to-wall white shirtsleeves"), done odd jobs for extra cash (delivering phone books, selling jewelry) while trying to scrape a living as a freelance aviation writer. Late one night he is strolling by a canal near the beach and he hears a voice "behind and to the right" say: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (John Livingston is the name of a great racing pilot of the 1930s). The hair on Bach...
...roof of Mem Hall. The South side patios on each studio floor provide ideal places in the Spring and Fall to catch a little sun or eat lunch as the sun is intensified by the reflecting by the reflecting glass--may be even in the Winter areas to scrape snow from for impromptu snow-ball fights. The tinted glass of the windows--although at the price of perpetual twilight for the occupants of offices and seminar rooms behind them--creates small paintings out of the views of Mem Hall...