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Housing for other oil workers is a miserable patchwork, almost as if patterned on the primitive mud huts of the Iranian countryside. Open sewers flank the area, while dogs nose their way through mounds of exposed garbage. The smell of filth permeates the air. The only sign of 20th century amenities is a spate of television aerials atop most of the homes. "They tried to buy us with television," says one of the local strike leaders, who would identify himself only with the nom de guerre Hossein. "My father used to tell us about this land with tears...
...furious protesters who had gathered along the route into the capital. Many were armed with placards reading FREE CHINA WILL NEVER FALL and CARTER SELLS PEANUTS AND FRIENDS. The Americans were trapped in their cars for over an hour while demonstrators pelted the caravan with eggs, mud, sand and paint. Christopher and Leonard Unger, now the ex-Ambassador to Taipei, suffered minor cuts from glass shattered...
...Bridges seems to keep insisting that, hey, didn't these people act foolish--he focuses on the superficial actions of the characters. His main character expresses his torment by driving to a river, covering himself with dirt, and holding a seance complete with an Academy Award made of mud. His idiocy is completed when he takes a dog's barking as a sign from Dean. Of course the actions of the Dean cultists were not very bright; they were all naive, and in light of the last twenty years, they really do look foolish. But the emotion they felt over...
...population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread...
...naked light bulbs that dangle by electrical wires from the ceilings. Window casements are broken, cracked and stained. Nothing looks new or even recently painted. There is inadequate ventilation in the hot summer months. Small braziers, fueled by stamped cakes made from coal dust and mud, serve as the only cooking appliances in shared kitchens. Families live in two or, at most, three small rooms, decorated primarily with peeling propaganda posters or the still ubiquitous portraits of Chairmen Mao Tse-tung and Hua Kuo-feng lined up side by side like altar gods...