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"[to his captors] I hope you all get anal herpes!"
"Left-wing, Colonel? Eh, maybe. But I'm not a Communist. And you guys never seem to be able to tell the difference!"
"Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?"
"You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bull shit!"
"You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die."
"[about the government in El Salvador] A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle."
"James Woods - Richard Boyle"
"Jim Belushi - Doctor Rock"
"Michael Murphy - Ambassador Thomas Kelly"
"John Savage - John Cassady"
"Elpidia Carrillo - MarÃa"
"Cindy Gibb - Cathy Moore"
"Tony Plana - Major Maximiliano 'Max' Casanova"
"Colby Chester - Jack Morgan- State Department Analyst"
"Will MacMillan - Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.