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...home truths occasionally do, but at the Café Babar they needed new material. One of the TV networks got hold of Troise, who, improvising with some desperation, said that the club was going to create a Pantheon of Dull Heroes in-here he reached into his skull at random for the name of a small town-Carroll, Iowa...
Although combat action was in short supply, the random, almost casual violence all around them disturbed the journalists. Says ABC's Barrie Dunsmore: "You can be shot in the hotel coffee shop as easily as in the bush." In the past two weeks, a CBS crew was robbed by guerrillas armed with automatic weapons; an ABC reporter had a gun pointed at his head in downtown San Salvador by a man who then simply drove away; and NBC Cameraman Hermes Munoz was held up by masked men as he left San Vicente. When Munoz protested that...
GORKY PARK by Martin Cruz Smith; Random House; 365 pages...
CREATION by Gore Vidal Random House; 510pages...
...intriguing aspect is not the content but the form; each of these columns has every 30th word or so underlined, apparently at random. Taken together, the underlined words from March 23 read, "Reagan revolution states and cities government intervention 'new federalism' business tax cut painful decisions deregulation relax existing regulations top slots Internior Secretary James Watt John Shad bureaucratic trenches On Capitol Hill labor laws Unions will fight back Outlook constitutional amendment convention runaway convention ROTC The Vietnam War military careers Tuition costs purple stamp 20 cents giving and receiving ends military muscle Arab-Israeli conflict Deng Xiaoping a reshuffle...