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Fighting started in a section of the camp between Vietnamese northerners and those from the south, who are normally held separately in the camps because of their longstanding political and cultural antagonisms. As police began arriving in force, 2,000 southern Vietnamese in an adjacent section tore down a 17-ft. wire-mesh fence and joined the fray. Panicked northerners sought refuge in a corrugated-steel dormitory. Their attackers began burning blankets and stuffing them through windows, setting fire to the building. The eventual toll: 23 burned alive or suffocated, including 10 children, and 125 injured, some of them seriously...
...curtain rises, the star is standing at the barre, one foot waggling over the horizontal. The problem, she announces, is how men and women might dance together since the twist tore them forever out of each other's arms. "The twist," she observes, "was an unforgiving movement" in which the body got stuck, first on one side, then on the other. A hilarious demonstration proves the point...
When Stealth fighters and B-52s levelled the slum area of El Chorillo in Panama--creating 30,000 instant homeless and uncounted dead--when F-15Es and Tomahawks tore up the suburbs of Baghdad, they got away with it. We believed that if the military could have, they would have avoided these folks, and that if those folks lived so close to support networks, they obviously supported them...
Down on Battleship Row, Fuchida's bombers kept pounding the helpless battlewagons. The West Virginia took six torpedoes, then two bombs. One large piece of shrapnel smashed into the starboard side of the bridge and tore open the stomach of the skipper, Captain Mervyn Bennion. A medic patched up the dying man's wound, and a husky black mess steward, Doris Miller, who had once boxed as the ship's heavyweight champion, helped move the stricken captain to a sheltered spot...
...more than 80 Japanese bombers caught the Prince of Wales on a glassy sea under a cloudless sky, vulnerable as a jeweled dowager surrounded by more than 80 switchblades. The warships zigzagged wildly as they unleashed a barrage of antiaircraft fire, but it was a hopeless mismatch. Two torpedoes tore apart the Prince of Wales' stern, disabling its rudder, filling its engine room with steam. The Repulse dodged nearly 20 torpedoes before four more ripped her open...