Word: bayonetting
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...other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
...testified in extraordinarily grim detail at his trial, he did it with a souvenir bayonet that he kept hidden under his mattress. Laying it on a nearby chair one night, he called in his mother to trim his toenails. For no particular reason, he said, as she knelt to clip "I picked up the bayonet by the blade, and I swung at her. I tried to stop myself when the handle hit her on the back of her head. She fell forward on her hands and knees and screamed for Dad. As I started to run from the room...
Planned Knockout. Esherick's defense was that killing his father was an accident. Mrs. Esherick did not think so. As she told it, her husband had rushed in after she was hit with the bayonet, and son and father had wrestled until she "saw Freddy draw his arm back." She went to the living room, picked up the telephone, and then "Freddy grabbed me from behind. I dropped the phone and passed out." When she came to, her husband's body was stuffed in beside her in the car. "I couldn't figure out where...
...shaken, the dissenters broke and ran, leaving bloody-headed buddies-and a dozen hapless newsmen-crumpled in the streets. The picketers resumed their vigil, forcing the draft center to bus its inductees right to the door, then double-time the soldiers-to-be through the crowd under escort of bayonet-swinging troops. It was an ugly image, and one that could cozily be interpreted outside the U.S. to imply that American draftees must be marched into service at gunpoint...
Successful Simplicity. As his field commander, McNamara has chosen husky Brigadier General William Ekman, 54, a bayonet-hard combat officer who led parachute assaults during World War II and was an original leader of the Green Berets. Though he has never previously grappled with civil rights or the law, Missouri-born Ekman (West Point, '38) knows how to face down segregationist landlords. "He looks on his new job as another battle," says a friend...