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...wife-a hint that the larder was bare and that he had better go rustle a few cows. (Auld Wat is also credited with a memorable remark to a haystack, which he noticed while returning from a raid: "Aye, if ye had four legs ye wouldna stand there lang...
...Lang, a ten-year-old Vietnamese, supported himself and his grandmother by begging in the streets of a small village south of Danang. One day he found something to play with-a white phosphorous grenade. It exploded, killing his two brothers and blinding his grandmother. Nor was Lang spared. The phosphorus seared his face, creating a mask of horror that no Hollywood makeup man could fashion. It also burned away his eye sockets and eyelids, leaving him with large frightened eyes that he cannot close...
...Lang's plight is anything but unique. There are anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 children like him in South Viet Nam. Some are the direct casualties of deadly ordnance fired by both sides. Others are indirect victims, burned while trying to use jet fuel for cooking, scarred by a wasting sickness called noma which is brought on by malnutrition, or crippled by other diseases that might be brought under control during peacetime. But Lang is a little luckier than most. He is being treated at the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Saigon, the only place...
MARGARET D. LANG...
Ministry of Fear and Metropolis, Fritz Lang double feature. Eliot House dining hall, 8, 10, March...