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...knew I was hurt," says Kasler. "My right thigh was broken, and a piece of bone about eight inches long had split off and jammed into my groin. I landed near some paddies 50 miles south of Hanoi. About 15 villagers jumped me and tore off all my clothes except my shorts. Then they saw my leg. In about five minutes a medic came, gave me a shot and made a splint out of a banana tree. They put me in a fish net and started carrying me-when the planes came...
...tore me down-and my family," says Wardrip. He claims, however, that he left the flag hanging in his bus "to show my patriotism-honest. I dig the flag." Unmoved, Judge Rees stood by his sentence, the intent of which, he said, was "embarrassment." Rees certainly achieved that intent. But was using the flag as a partition a much greater desecration than using it as a means of embarrassing a U.S. citizen...
...Offered a better deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage...
This leaves the war and Afro-American Studies. Ironically, these were the issues which tore apart the University at the height of student activism in 1969. But the war is over, right? The outrage over bombing and mining and killing upon which activists could always count for support--as PALC did at Mass Hall last Spring--is ended for now. In the war's aftermath, some odd patterns emerge...
That first night of freedom at Clark, the men indulged in what one officer called "an orgy of eating"-liver smothered in onions, fried chicken, steaks. The prisoners did not select one meat or another but ate them all, then tore into the cornflakes, heaping salads and triple-scoop banana splits. At 3 a.m., one prisoner went back to the cafeteria and ate an entire loaf of bread, each slice thickly coated with butter...