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...down on his back and slashed him four times in the throat leaving the serrated knife buried deep within. He stabbed him four times in the abdomen into the colon, all fatal wounds. He bled to death, helped by the throw pillow with which Tex smothered his face to stop the screams...Not to be outdone. Katie took the carving fork and stabbed both bodies with it. Seven double punctures punctured here and there into the abdomen of Mr. LaBianca, till she left it embedded in his flesh near the navel to the bifur cation of the tines. Katie said...
...largest U.S. force overseas; troop strength in Viet Nam is now down to 215,000 and declining steadily. Despite its importance, however, the Seventh is an army twice lost-forgotten at home and neglected abroad. Totally overshadowed in over a decade of increasing Asian commitment, the Seventh has been bled of needed money and experienced men. The result has been an upsurge of racism, drug abuse and disastrous morale...
...entire supply can disappear in about a century. Production in the silver mines of Rome began to decline about A.D. 200. By then, they were so deep that Roman engineers had no way of clearing them of water. After that, says the geochemist, "it was like being bled to death without knowing that one was bleeding." The result was the gradual disappearance of Roman coins and the return to an unwieldy barter system too crude to sustain the empire...
...nuclear weapons in the event of Chinese intervention in Viet Nam. In a conversation with South Viet Nam's then Premier Nguyen Khanh, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that if the planned U.S. military buildup triggered Chinese intervention, "we would not allow ourselves to be bled white while fighting them with conventional weapons." Rusk, however, was relatively restrained in comparison with many other ranking U.S. officials. Time and again, the Pentagon papers show that Washington's instinctive reaction was to resort to military force when faced with difficult problems in Asia. Fortunately, less hawkish options were usually...
...that the conduct of the Vietnamese elections this year under the Thieu-Ky regime is democratic even though political intimidation and exclusion have made those elections a hoax even now. All right-the war must be opposed on all levels, but while all that money and power is being bled into the American political viper the military destruction of Asia will continue...