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Rebellious, exuberant youth collide with newly independent Africa. DRINKING FROM THE STREAM is the story of Jake Ries and Karl Appel's erratic, fateful course hitchhiking across Ethiopia and East Africa with their friends. All the while grappling with personal demons. Oh, yes. And with dictatorship and mass murder.

Think ON THE ROAD meets Idi...

FOREWORD

Until almost the end of the 1980s, Paraguay and General Alfredo Stroessner were perceived as virtually synonymous in the minds of a whole generation. Indeed, this dictator often eclipsed the small, inland South American country over which he ruled for more than a third of a century. Yet, in the long run, the most important events in...

CHAPTER 1. HISTORICAL SETTING Richard S. Sacks