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...Great Society planners saw it back in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson appointed the 35-member American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the year 1976 was to be no ordinary national birthday party. Instead of creating battlefield reruns or splashy carnivals of no lasting value, the eelebration money would be used to redevelop a city or even an entire region. This regional concentration would be the quintessence of the national spirit, demonstrating the admirable virtues of teamwork, brainpower and American know...
...Only minutes before the same officer had told his men, "The most effective place to insert the bayonet is in the neck or crotch; these areas are soft and vulnerable; if you don't kill your man, you'll surely disable him." The bayonet instruction was oriented toward the battlefield, but no one made the distinction between one battlefield and another...
...Guard was conceived as an arm of the army. They are trained in battlefield combat, and only partially in keeping order in the streets. Their instruction comes from men who are biased against the young and the black, who are the citizens and the enemy that they will face in the streets. Their bias encourages overreaction in riot situations. And they, unlike the police who they play backstop for, are armed with weapons that make overreaction a fatal...
...received part of his cadet training in Hanoi. Since he won his first command as a young airborne officer, he has survived three assassination attempts, resulting in his conviction that he is a baraka-a French barracks term for one who enjoys immunity from death on the battlefield...
INDOCHINA. Defoliation and bombing in Viet Nam, in addition to killing off many species, has driven most of that nation's elephants, monkeys and rhinos to the doubtful sanctuaries of Cambodia and Laos. Only the tigers have stayed behind-to feed on human battlefield casualties...