Word: bayonetings
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...During the campaign he pronounced the usual warnings of doom, decadence and destruction by federal power, but he said these things without malice. Buckley could take a hard stand on campus dissenters, but, as one of his aides put it: "Jim was not the guy who was about to bayonet your kids...
Aggressive people in the crowd were closer than 20 yards to the Guardsmen-never at bayonet point as one said-and the main crowd was some 75 yards away when the firing occurred. The danger "was not a danger which called for lethal force...
...Massachusetts National Guardsmen are not given ammunition in the course of normal riot duty. The officers instruct them to use their bayonets if they are attacked. The lieutenant who supervises one unit told his men, "If a demonstrator tries to take you gun, stab him. Stab em, that's right, and when they see several of their buddies lying in the street severely wounded, they'll get the message." 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...
...just won a Pulitzer Prize for his effort, places the number of dead at between 450 and 500. Describing the murderous mood of the U.S. troops, he writes: "A G.I. was chasing a duck with a knife; others stood around watching a G.I. slaughter a cow with a bayonet. A G.I. with an M-16 rifle fired at two young boys walking along a road. The older of the two-about seven or eight years old-fell over the first to protect him. The G.I. kept on firing until both were dead." Hammer quotes a U.S. soldier who watched...
Police yesterday conducted an intensive search for 300 bayonet-equipped riot guns which were stolen Sunday in North Branford. The guns were reportedly awaiting delivery to the nearby Branford police department...