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That night giant bonfires will be lit in towns and villages throughout the country, and the Israelis will treat themselves to a night of entertainment, street dancing and fireworks. Next day a military parade five miles long-Israel's first in five years-will snake for hours through the streets of Jerusalem. Overhead, more planes (the exact number is classified) will fly above the historic city than have ever been gathered in the region before. One group of Mirages will form a Star of David. The real message of the air display, however, as all Arabs will surely recognize...
...album cover: blue jeans, cowboy boots, striding down the railroad tracks playing his guitar. Or looking out over something with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. He might sing Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" ["I've walked 47 miles of barbed wire, use a cobra snake for a necktie...."] He'd sing songs like that in his guttural voice...
...Evergreen Review on the Plain Dealer's handling of its scoop on the My Lai massacre photos. That caused ill will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over a rumor that reporters were planning to put LSD in the cafeteria water fountain...
...many of the G.I.s, the departure proved an emotional experience, carried out in the dark recesses of bars like Randy's Randa-Vous and the Snake Pit. "All my goodbyes are taken care of," said Army Specialist Four Nelson Coffey, 29, of Portageville, N.Y. "I've paid my girl friend's rent till the end of the month and given her a couple hundred piasters so she'll survive. I guess if she can't hook up with a civilian soon, she'll go back to the rice paddies...
...camp was pitched for any length of time, each P.O.W. was locked up in an 8-ft.-by-8-ft. cell constructed of green logs. The prisoners did not eat much worse than their captors: rice for every meal supplemented by the meat of anything that ran or crawled-snake, dog, tiger, rat, anteater. A delicacy was elephant blood soup. "Jungle meat can be real good," says Utecht. "One day I tried to cut into a ball of meat. It suddenly spread out, forming a hand. It was a monkey's hand...