Word: bayonetings
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...cavalry caught up with him at Spotted Tail's agency, and arrested him. Under the grasp of his former comrade, Little Big Man (now an Indian policeman), Crazy Horse was led to the agency jail. When he refused to enter, a guard stabbed the Oglala chief with his bayonet, while Little Big Man held him captive. Crazy Horse was buried, ironically enough, at Wounded Knee...
...back of a pickup truck. At each village, he says, "people would hit me and throw rocks and mud at me, and the guards would hit me in the mouth-I guess to show how tough they were. In one village, they gave a little girl a bayonet and took pictures of her holding it to my throat. Big heroine! When we reached Hoa Lo prison camp [the so-called Hanoi Hilton] they put me on a cement floor, and interrogators told me that I must write a 'confession of crimes against the Vietnamese people.' I refused...
...four-story headquarters of the People's Daily on Peking's busy Wang Fu Ching Street bears scant resemblance to a Western newspaper office. A People's Liberation Army soldier with fixed bayonet patrols the main entrance and bars passage to anyone lacking an appointment. Inside, there is no bustle of copy boys, no chorus of jangling telephones. The People's Daily is plainly not a normal newspaper; it is the voice of the Chinese Communist Party. That fact-plus a circulation of 3.4 million -makes it China's most influential publication...
...Pennsylvania anthracite, went to Korea ("I wanted above all else to be a soldier") and emerged as that war's most highly decorated enlisted man-over 25 medals, including three Silver Stars, one Bronze Star and four Purple Hearts. At one of many ceremonies in his honor, a bayonet that had been run through his side was polished up and ritually presented to him by Jennifer Jones. Then Eleanor Roosevelt drew him aside, told him to leave the Army and go to college...
...visit to Seoul last week, TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel found an Orwellian atmosphere. "When you enter the door to the biggest newspaper, Dong-a Ilbo," he cabled, "you have to watch out that you don't get scraped in the face by the bayonets that two grim-looking paratroopers hold crossed on their M16s. For obvious reasons, it was hard to get much comment from Koreans. But passers-by appeared visibly startled when they saw the big American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved...