Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights went out, then on again. A phone rang and we were told that police were on their way. Six minutes later, another phone call said General Zia was sending reinforcements...
With the Marines standing guard over the hatch, two groups of women went out onto the roof, then some men, then some more women. A burst of fresh air suddenly hit me; very cold, very fresh. There was a strange glow around the edges of the roof from the fire that was consuming the building beneath us. The Marines warned us in whispers: "Stay down! Stay down!" They could not be sure there were not still rioters somewhere on the roof...
...more people came up from the vault, we gathered in knots for the move across the roof to a second ladder that went to the ground. The Marines led us over the side. "I'm sorry we have to take you through a little smoke here," one of them said to me. This part of the building was blazing from both sides, and smoke hung over everything. I kept thinking that the roof had to collapse soon-any minute...
Presidents had to move on instinct. And with every President since Harry Truman, when the orders went out and the troops moved, the U.S. was very much by itself. "Where are my friends?" Lyndon Johnson used to wonder on many a night when he was bogged down in Viet Nam after having been urged on by Asian allies. Richard Nixon, once described as being tougher than a boiled owl, knew better. He never expected much help in anything...
...bank, which has finally figured out what went wrong, is threatening to sue for the money's return. Cochran still holds the cash hostage. "I'm working," he says, "on some new demands...