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He had temporarily vacated
his throne after a power struggle in which he lost rule of his landlocked
country to a group of junior officers, former Eagle Scouts and certified
Methodists turned Marxists, the only people in the country who could fly
the nation's single aircraft, a C-47 that had been previously owned by
Howard Hughes and Arthur Godfrey, and then was converted to crop dusting.
The pilots pried open the rigid windows, using spears
and a machine gun, and flew around the capital dropping explosives.
From "The Building"
by Thomas Glynn |