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...Irelands is inevitable. He has branded the Tory government's internment policy a blunder, and has called on the government either to bring to trial the 760 suspected subversives now under detention or to release them. "Internment," he charged, "has proved to be a recruiting sergeant for the I.R.A...
...sort of expected to find a steely, crew-cut sergeant, but instead I was greeted by a mild, soft-spoken captain, who seemed as nervous as I. However, he did not exactly look effete behind three rows of medals, including a Vietnam War ribbon and a silver medal with "Expert" written on it, and he appeared to be a little surprised to see me fruiting in the door. After a few polite preliminaries, he looked at me and asked increduously. "Are you really interested in becoming a Marine?" I explained that I "want to keep my options open...
...whose problems range from life and death to the merits of stocks v. tax-free municipal bonds. The main story line-the one that will remain after most of the rest of the plot has been cut away for a workable script-is about a Mexican-American Air Force sergeant who shoots and kills a hippie drug dealer on a military base in the Southwest. The longhair, a local counterculture idol, had deflowered the sergeant's rambling rose of a daughter...
...straight community regards the Chicano as a hero who did the red-blooded American thing. The Air Force regards the matter as a no-win proposition. If the sergeant goes free, it might appear that military men are privileged as killers. If he is punished, the community will be outraged...
...Only the sergeant remains calm. He killed out of anger, and is perfectly willing to pay for it. But nothing is simple any more. Justice gets lost in a welter of lawyers' ambitions and personal problems, fatal misunderstandings, official deception and senseless violence. Anything resembling youthful idealism, compassion or hope either gets destroyed or freaks...