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...their countrymen and a burning hate for tinhorn dictators with rich American friends tried unsuccessfully to capture the barracks in an attempt to spark an insurrection which they though would topple Batista's government. There is a huge school now in the long, pink building with seventeen-year-old bullet holes still pock-marking its walls. That day the fourth-graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children. A few pictures showed kids staring blankly at the camera, their flesh grotesquely disfigured by Dow's napalm, but most of the shots were of boys...
...jazzman has this thing with the fuzz. Last October, Brooklyn patrolmen arrived to help him out after someone creased his hip with a bullet and ended up arresting him for possessing pot. This time Manhattan cops just wanted to see his driver's license. As Trumpeter Miles Davis rummaged through a bag looking for the license, out fell a pair of brass knuckles. Though it is a felony to carry knucks in New York, the judge let Davis off with a $100 fine for driving without a license...
...have, his father says, "one of the great marriages of all time." When he talks today, he sounds as outrageous as ever, but miraculously, studio heads no longer shake their heads in bewilderment; they nod them in bewilderment. As John Cheever puts it at the end of Bullet Park, it is all "as wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful as it had been...
...disgusted Arab diplomat once noted that few nations can match Iraq at staging "fiestas of madmen dancing around corpses." In the 1958 revolution, they dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. In 1963 they displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. Last year they hanged eleven "Israeli spies" and mounted their bodies on ceremonial gallows in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
Flak from Officers The bullet arced through the evening air above the radio station, penetrated a skylight over the newsroom, missed the duty newsman's head by inches, tore through two pieces of copy paper in his hand and landed, spent, in his typewriter. That was in Saigon a few years ago, but there have been other perils for news staffers of the American Forces Viet Nam Network (AFVN). Lately, most of those perils have come not from the enemy without but from the brass within...