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the charter-bus arrival: the Brazilian O.N.A.N./U.N. de-mapping

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the eldest Loach boy had done a two-year U.S.N. bit and had gotten de-mapped early on in the Brazilian O.N.A.N./U.N. joint action of Y.T.M.P.

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O.N.A.N. as a military actor abroad, dropped into the Loach family saga: the eldest brother "had gotten de-mapped early on in the Brazilian O.N.A.N./U.N. joint action of Y.T.M.P." The continental organization conducts "joint action" with the U.N. in Brazil, and "de-mapped" is the term for a soldier's death — the map-elimination death-idiom (086, n024) applied to O.N.A.N.'s overseas war. The founding produced not just a defensive waste-border but an expeditionary O.N.A.N. that kills in South America. (The São-Paulo-architect / Brazilian-motifs recur at 160/n321; cross-ref.)

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