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...swiftness. Most spectators hardly knew what had happened until they saw blood spilling across the hall floor. One eyewitness, Leslie Morgan, thinks he saw the spark that touched off the battle. "I saw two Hell's Angels come up to a Breed and try to take his colors [jacket and club emblem] off. The Breed started yelling for help. They got his jacket down to his elbows; then one of the Angels pulled a knife from his belt and stabbed the Breed two or three times in the stomach. He fell screaming to the floor...
There were no incidents of outright violence, although several women attempted to wrest cameras away from photographers, fearing the use of pictures by police for identification purposes. One small man wearing a light tan jacket- whose camera was covered with red spray paint in a scuffie - later joined police back at the vacated building...
...sinks onto the cluttered couch of gold brocade, dropping a leather jacket on the floor beside him. He squints. His cold, blue eyes do battle with the yellow afternoon sun that streams through the foggy windows before him. He stretches, his tall, slim body, stretching in the warmth like a lithe, tense cat. His beard is cropped close, ash-blond, almost grey in the translucent light, and blends, quite unostentatiously, with his shaggily trimmed hair. His eyebrows-enormous tensile spans that arch across his brow-seem to be all that is holding him together, so much so that you forget...
...mess hall, a young, rawboned roustabout drains his coffee cup, zips up his waterproof jacket and stands, listening briefly for the fickle north wind that whips cruelly across the gulf this time of year. Then he sighs: "Well, 1 guess it's time to feed my young'uns." Somehow his words sound like a motto for the offshore oilmen...
...then he stopped his principal attacker, a long-haired student in an army jacket, glasses, and jeans named Tom Ward, and forced him to answer the question, "Do you really care about what motivates me?" Ward said yes, quietly, and Teller began his life story-again...