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Word spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices of the Nation of Islam, however, are Muslim indeed: prayer five times daily facing Mecca, abstinence from pork and alcohol, no gambling and a puritanical sex code...
...hypertension. According to the A.H.A., one out of every four adult black Americans has high blood pressure, compared with one out of seven adult whites. Some scientists theorize that blacks are genetically incapable of handling the large amounts of salt that are found in a diet rich in pork and highly seasoned soul food. Others suggest that the pressures of being black in America are enough to cause the disease. Indeed, a common joke among blacks is "If you're black and you ain't paranoid or suffering from hypertension, you don't know what...
...first two days of trading, not a single sale was made in any of European-American Bank's 104 branches in the New York City area. Trading was brisk on half a dozen U.S. commodity exchanges, where gold-futures contracts were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold no fewer than 452 contracts for future delivery-the biggest opening on the exchange, they said, since boneless beef made its debut as a traded commodity...
Martin Peretz, munching a pork chop, takes up his new duties as special lecturer on Mormonism. "Gene says give the system one more chance," Peretz says. "Liberals like myself believe in religious pluralism." Rockefeller bombs Hanoi for Christmas...