Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

This Muammar is truly loony.

Calvin Trillin
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This Muammar is truly loony.
If he can’t stop this ranting soon, he
May drive us all to flee pell-mell.
I’d rather listen to Fidel.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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