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...nearly 500 troopers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire on a bedraggled band of Minneconjou Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak. When the last carbine bullet splattered to a stop and the final Hotchkiss shell exploded, more than half the 350 Indian men, women and children were dead. Many were slaughtered as they lay wounded in their tents. Others were hunted down in the surrounding gullies. The massacre concluded with a heavy snowfall that shrouded the dead and closed one of the most distorted periods in U.S. history...
...sure how much the still developing art of "genetic counseling" will help mankind. Kenneth Swier, 39, is among those who can see some possible benefits-though not for himself. A tall, rawboned man who yearns to work, Swier has spent eight years in depressing idleness in Colton, S. Dak. (pop. 601). He suffers from spinal cerebellar degeneration, a hereditary nerve disease that will probably kill him before his 45th birthday. But it now appears that a remarkable piece of genetic sleuthing may save many of Swier's relatives from sharing his fate -and provide a technique for controlling other...
...Arnett's most memorable items was his account of the battle in 1967 for Hill 875, near Dak To. Out of 300 U.S. soldiers who went up the hill, he recalls, 97 were killed and 120 were wounded. "We were stuck there for 30 hours, no water, no nothing-just enemy fire. The living and the dead had the same gray pallor. When I finally got on the helicopter to get out of there, I just bawled, I was so glad to be alive." The same year Faas wrote a moving story while he was in a hospital recovering...
Grand Forks, N. Dak...
...Communist terrorism is carried out at random. Thousands of Vietnamese have died in well-planned massacres. In 1967, Montagnard tribesmen, who had fled the Communists a year earlier, were set upon in their new home at Dak Son 75 miles northeast of Saigon. Six hundred Viet Cong, 60 of them armed with flamethrowers, invaded the village, setting fire to the huts and shooting the inhabitants as they fled their burning homes, then executing 60 survivors of the assault. Altogether, 252 unarmed Montagnards, nearly all of them women and children, were murdered, 100 kidnaped, 500 listed as missing...