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...once again bad, the buses were belching, and the heat unbearable. Die-hard Fonseka supporters have vowed to continue the protests, which have yet to gain the support of wider civil-society groups. "We will go on. We will not stop till our general is given back to us," Vinni Siegera, a middle-aged woman who had attended the rally without an invitation, told TIME, beads of sweat on her forehead. The next few days will make it clear whether those like her have wider support in the country...
According to Vinni di Cicco, bar-tender at the Italian restaurant Domenico's on Bennington Street, the parade included balloons, floats, marching bands and various cartoon characters such as Batman and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers...
...Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including a pirated Russian translation (Vinni-Pukh i vse-vse-vse), which Macrae happily pirated right back last year and printed for publication...
Other ships fell victim as the cruise continued: the Holmwood, Notou, Ringwood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster, Vinni. Most male prisoners were jammed into the Tokyo Maru under machine-gun guard. Once 132 of them were kept under hatches for three days without fresh water, bedded down with a herd of pigs. Their food was black bread, raw sausage and bacon. Aboard the Manyo Mam the women fared little better. Fifteen of them were crowded into a 12-by-10-foot cubbyhole below the water line, with no water for bathing, scanty food. Once they were allowed to go on deck...
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