TECATE WARS (cont.)

the drive to el cajon was 

 uneventful. 

   the general parked and walked to the

 Katzberger's bookstore 

 he stopped when he saw the liquor store 

"maybe just a wee bottle of sumpin"

     outside the bookstore a 

cadre of scruffy antiwar protesters 

spotted him and began yelling 

 and waving their handwritten signs

'hmm, maybe I should have bought some security'

                         he hoped his breath didn't reek of peppermint schnapps
'well' he said as he dialed the local tv news station
'there's no such thing as bad publicity'