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...being "obviously laggard" in meeting the crisis. With all its reservoirs on the rocks, it was clearly too late to rush out and build new ones; in any case, there was no prospect of rain to fill them. Instead, the city reacted with a characteristic blend of hoopla, voodoo and Micawberism...
Captain Joseph P. Smith of the U.S. 38th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron gunned his RF-101 Voodoo jet down the base runway at Ramstein, West Germany. His destination, according to a flight plan filed half an hour earlier with French air control, was France's Rhône Valley. His announced purpose: training for NATO defense. At 4:54 p.m., as he was making his second pass at 2,000 ft. over the Rhône town of Pierrelatte, Captain Smith was greeted wingtip to wingtip by an old French Vautour interceptor. He made two more passes over Pierrelatte...
Questions Without Answers. At this point, the facts end and the mystery begins. Was the Voodoo on a spying mission or were the Pierrelatte pictures simply the result of a monumental Air Force snafu? The French, in a polite oral protest to the American embassy, seemed to think the former; the U.S., in an ambiguous, embarrassed apology for its "inadvertent violation of French flight regulations," indicated the latter...
Officially, I'Affaire Voodoo was over. Or was it? If De Gaulle's most skillful intelligence operatives had arranged the whole thing as an elaborate trap to embarrass an unsuspecting U.S. Air Force, his agents could not have given le grand Charles a better case to justify his long-felt need to get the Americans out of Europe-or at least out of France...
...dolls are not just witty toys. Although her art has been mistaken for pop, she is actually more the "wise primitive." She naturally admires the work of the Douanier Rousseau, as well as African, pre-Columbian and early American sculpture. Her statues can also suggest the hex of voodoo, and she admits, "Sometimes I get scared by my own work." She knows the primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture of him-maybe...