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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Captain Fred Brown of Tacoma, Wash., knew Calley for six months while he was on duty in Viet Nam and liked the lieutenant. "He was sort of an all-American boy, a real nice guy. The only hang-up he had was the same one everybody there had, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

For one who has faith in a loving Creator, it is the fundamental challenge to divine credibility: centuries of Christian theological cerebration have led to no more satisfying conclusion than that evil truly exists and that in some unknown way it will be conquered and made to serve the hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Evil: The Inescapable Fact | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

The Puritan ethos was a stimulus to striving and hard work; no wonder that it gave way to its secular descendant, pragmatism-the uniquely American philosophy articulated by C. S. Peirce, Dewey and William James. Americans are the exemplars of pragmatism, of rational humanism. The pragmatist, of course, does not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Evil: The Inescapable Fact | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Not all Communist terrorism is carried out at random. Thousands of Vietnamese have died in well-planned massacres. In 1967, Montagnard tribesmen, who had fled the Communists a year earlier, were set upon in their new home at Dak Son 75 miles northeast of Saigon. Six hundred Viet Cong, 60...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On the Other Side: Terror as Policy | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

The Communist slaughter of civilians was wholesale while the Communists held the old imperial capital of Hué during their 1968 Tet offensive. Working from house to house with specially prepared "blood lists," they rounded up all officials and people suspected of working with the U.S. and Saigon governments. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On the Other Side: Terror as Policy | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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