Them again
Serial No. 54129
tjohnson at dircon.co.uk
Tue Mar 19 19:19:48 CST 1996
=46rom _Gravity's Rainbow_, p. 113 (Picador ed.):
'In these first rushes the black man moves about in SS uniform, among the
lath and canvas mockups of rocket and Meillerwagen (akthough always shot
through pines, through snow, from distant angles that don't give away the
English location)=8A It will be antiqued, given a bit of fungus and
ferrotyping, and transported to Holland, to become part of the 'remains' of
a counterfeit rocket-firing site in the Rijkwijksche Bosch. The Dutch
resistance will then 'raid' this site, making a lot of commotion, faking in
tire-tracks and detailing the litter of hasty departure.'
=46rom _The Guardian_, Monday March 18 1996, p. 8:
'The HVO [Bosnian Croat army] was assigned to attack a key Serb stronghold,
Kokoska. But a phone call on July 18 between the Serb commander, Marko
Lugonja, and an intermediary called Zdanko reveals a plan for the Serbs to
let the Croats film a supposed victory on Serb territory to 'fool the
international community and the Muslims.
'A Serb Major Buvka tells Zdanko: 'They [the Croats] are bringing their TV=
=8A
but make sure they come without their personal weapons. You must give them
the weapons up there, without ammunition of course. Let them make a video
film of the whole thing so it loks real.'
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