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...case, Time and Newsweek would have been ecstatle. A random savesdropping of the chatter of Harvard Class of 1970's fifth reunion gave doubles evidence to the notion that yesterday's revolutionaries have beaten their awards into scalpels and traded their red books for writ books. These is attendance were primarily lawyers and law students, with a smattering of doctors, academics, and other professionals, and one unemployed moot-suiter...
...Butz, Laine had been walking to his office through a crowd of 125,000 gathered on the grounds by the Washington Monument for a rock festival celebrating-inappropriately, as it turned out-"Human Kindness Day." Wandering gangs of black teen-agers circulated through the crowd beating up whites at random, robbing whites and some blacks as well. One of the muggers attacked Laine, stabbing him in the right eye, which he subsequently lost...
...PETER MATTHIESSEN 408 pages. Random House...
...Vietnam would look very strange to me without barbed wires, tanks and shells. You get used to the want though. I tell people here about the time we lived in a bunker for a week, and they don't know how we stood it. But the killing was so random that you never really expected anything to happen. You could sleep and be blown up and never know...
...really part of the Khmer Rouge at all. They were quickly replaced by tough, disciplined soldiers, heavily laden with arms, who swept through the city with loudspeakers. "Leave your homes immediately!" they ordered. When their instructions were not quickly obeyed, the soldiers sometimes punctuated them with random rifle shots. The frenzied evacuation of the city was soon under way. At the Information Ministry, Schanberg reported, a stern young officer held a formal press conference for Western journalists. Present were some Cambodian prisoners, many of whom had been ranking members of the old regime. Among them was former Premier Long Boret...