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...sorry, sir, but your book and yourpresence are obscenities," said one Vietnamveteran in the audience...
...ambushed Ba's troops on the road to Hoc Mon. Ba remembers yelling "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" at his force, only to have a captain tell him, "Sir, we cannot shoot. I think it's all over now, sir." At NVA command, Ba's men meekly laid down their weapons, while the general and his bodyguard hid in a flooded rice paddy, lying face up with eyes half shut and only noses poking above the murky water. That bought Ba less than 24 hours of freedom. He tried to get through the NVA lines by passing himself off as a farmer...
...that fateful evening of waltz conducting. I returned to my room after the post-waltz party, having walked a stumbling cellist home. At this point I still retained complete control of dexterous and psychological, but alas not intestinal, functions. I lay down in bed to read, hoping that Sir Walter Scott would wear off the Scotch. But the lines of text resembled the scrolling credits of a movie on fast-for-ward...
...Dear Sir...
Suddenly, Tim's comfortable country life is shattered. Emma withdraws from his love and his house at about the same time that Larry disappears. The inquiring police take a cheeky tone with him: "Yes, well, your ... friend has gone a bit missing, to tell you the truth, Mr. Cranmer, sir." And then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand...