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Tilting and swaying in unison, the two machines gained altitude. Saigon lay below, brown and smoky in the afternoon light, its serpentine river cutting a wide and winding swath through the city. I glanced at my watch: 3:52, five hours and ten minutes since our evacuation had commenced at the Continental Palace Hotel. I tried to pick out the hotel from the air, but we were already too high, slipping southeast over veined paddyfields toward...
...Middle East policy has been characterized by 1) patience in advancing long-term Soviet interests; 2) prudence in avoiding any direct confrontation with the U.S.; and 3) providing massive arms aid to favored Arab nations. With this slogging, farsighted policy, the Soviets clearly hope to establish a swath of influence from Syria to Somalia extending far into the Indian Ocean. If and when the Geneva talks resume, the Kremlin will be able to exert influence on an impressive ar ray of actual and potential Middle East allies. Items...
...regarded as howling Gallic understatement. On Homer's blood-drenched plains of Troy, spears cleave through a man's tongue and shatter his teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer is: "So many die, so often, every day,/ when would soldiers come...
...could see. There was a big swath of raw flesh just below Kenny's ribs. His elbow was swollen really big, and so was his hand. There was a deep gouge near his wrist. He showed me a big sore on his hip, and he showed me his shirt lying in the corner. It was a strip of rags...
Across Africa's broad chest, from Senegal to Ethiopia, the worst drought of the century continues to cut a 4,000-mile swath of devastation. After six years of light rainfall, nearly one-third of the 51 million people who live in this band from the Atlantic to the Red Sea are threatened by starvation. Not even a good rainfall this season can end the tragedy, so wasted is the land and so slight the prospect of a bountiful harvest. Worst hit are Ethiopia and the six nations of the arid Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger...