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...economic aid from neighboring Russia, $410 million from the U.S. As the Vice President's Cadillac entered Kabul, the streets were lined with solemn Afghans, many looking like Genghis Khan's horsemen. Agnew's most rousing reception, however, came from about 800 college students, who threw mud at his car and waved banners reading "Stop killing people in Viet Nam." When Etemadi apologized, Agnew confided to his host: "I'm used to this...
...Return of the Herd (see detail, page 58), one hears it first of all. Not only the lowing of cattle in the last watery rays of an autumn afternoon, but also the squish of mud beneath their hoofs and the crows' jeering overhead. The cattle are coming down from their mountain pastures. Most will be slaughtered, but a lucky few may winter with their masters in out of the wind. Beyond, and below, the last of the grapes are being gathered. Dionysus, god of wine, once stole the cattle of the sun. A castle gleams like teeth...
Stick in the Mud. The net impact of the first half of the 91st Congress was so ambiguous that politicians could readily tag it in any way that served their purposes. Democrat Mansfield called the performance "responsible and respectable." House Republican Leader Gerald Ford termed it a "dolittle Congress, a treading-water Congress, a stick-in-the-mud assembly." In fact, the Congress was indecisive. It both declined to advance much of Nixon's legislative program and failed to establish any clear opposition program of its own. Only belatedly did Congress attend to even its basic housekeeping chores...
...stopped raining, but the dirt road leading through the mountain meadows to thicker woods and the commune was a river of red mud. The sun was setting as we walked the five miles to the commune. Yana slogged along about ankle deep in mud. I held her sleeping bag for her once while she squatted in the road to piss and a few other times at places where the road had sharp gravel. We had to pass up one shortcut because the rocks would be too hard on Yana's feet. By the time we got to the vicinity...
...rejecting them. "Look at Venice," he says. "This city appears like a vision contrived under drug influence. Yet had its builders been drug eaters, they would have never managed the energy to build it. They would have merely dreamed about the city, and would have remained idle on their mud flats...