But why in the name of reason. do we insist on making a fool of ourselves at the same time? I refer to an Associated Press story run in the Tuesday. November 24. 1970. edition of the Washington Evening Star. The story said in part: The instructions were to come forward one by one. receive a relief packet from the U. S. ambassador and shake his hand. The starving Pakistanis could not wait. In the bedlam. two refugees were slashed by rotating helicopter blades. another was hurt in a battle of rice sacks and Ambassador Joseph S. Farland retreated into a helicopter to escape the frantic mob. Mr.
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Starving Pakistanis are a 'frantic mob'.