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hotbed of radicalism in the capital, the campus and its adjacent streets were jammed with students. Just finished with their midday prayers, they were now chanting and marching. Some were firing machine guns into the air. Charlie could feel the same violent spirit that had pervaded the scene around the embassy, and he immediately slammed on the brakes and screeched to a halt. Jamming the car into reverse, he gunned the engine and began to back up but was cut off by a VW van filled with students that had come up behind them. The VWβs driver suddenly began screaming something about their American car, and six young men jumped out, carrying wooden sticks and metal pipes. βLock your doors, Claire,β Charlie ordered, doing the same on his side. Wild-eyed, the students surrounded the Buick, taunting and cursing them.
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Joel C. Rosenberg (The Auschwitz Escape)