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Some 18,000 pigeons (1,000 for each year of Perón's exile) were to be released. But by the time they were set loose, the 50-acre meadow below had turned into a bloody battlefield. Volleys of shots rang out, and thousands of people fell to the ground or scrambled for shelter, screaming. When the shooting stopped, 34 Argentines lay dead and 342 were wounded. They were victims not of police or army violence but of bitter hatreds within the movement that calls itself Peronism-a polymorphous organization that encompasses old-line union chiefs, Trotskyite students...
...1950s owned a string of gas stations in Austria. When the Nazis came in 1938, the young entrepreneur fled to Paris and later to England. Broke and speaking only fractured English, he joined the Pioneer Corps and from there secured a transfer to the Royal Engineers as a battlefield tank mechanic...
...goals. There is evidence that some elements would be willing to settle for a coalition government if they could only get rid of Lon Nol. On the other hand, it is argued, why should they agree to talk with a government they have all but defeated on the battlefield? Still another view is that any settlement in Cambodia is not in the Communists' interests at this time because it would be overly threatening to the U.S., South Viet Nam and Thailand. Indeed, when the time is ripe for the K.I. to negotiate, it seems likely that the many faces...
...England is a real home for the technology of the electronic battlefield." Koff said. "We want to develop a deeper idea of how the military-industrial complex operates here." The activities of General Electric and Honeywell--prime contractors with the Department of Defense--are watched with particular emphasis, she said...
...before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and four years before the Marines landed at Danang. So it seemed altogether fitting that the end of the American involvement in the Viet Nam War-March 30, 1973-should also fall on a rather random day: 35 days after the last American battlefield casualty, and before an end to the bombing in Indochina (now over Cambodia), to the financial aid, or to the substantial civilian presence...