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If They Didn’t Get Her in Zim—
Earlier that same Friday morning in Sills Creek, after Liza saw Germane off to school, she went back inside to her kitchen, made a fresh pot of coffee, and read her newspaper.
But for the remainder of this day Liza broke with her usual regimen. Shortly before 9:00 a.m., she rolled the cart with her television set on it from her bedroom to the dining room and placed the cart a few yards from her dining room table, where the television set could be most easily viewed by everyone sitting there. Then she set the table with pastries and coffee for her friends and relatives who were coming over to watch Congressman Hollingsworth deliver his speech on foreign and domestic policy at Columbia University. They considered the congressman “a handsome, young black m
