Word: dumdum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fusillade of shotgun pellets and dumdum bullets went on for six minutes. When it was over, 29 inmates and ten guard hostages at the maximum-security prison outside Attica, N.Y., lay dead or dying in the early morning drizzle. Last week, one year after the massacre, a nine-member special commission created by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller issued its report* on what happened before, during and after the bloodiest prison riot in U.S. history. Headed by N.Y.U. Law Dean Robert B. McKay, the commission interviewed 1,600 inmates, as well as 400 guards and hundreds of state troopers...
...criticism has often been narrow and carping, more concerned with working conditions than the papers' performance; advocacy sometimes is so one-sided as to seem irresponsible. But some valid questions have been raised. The Long Beach Review attacked local papers for rejecting an article on the use of dumdum bullets by the city's police. The Philadelphia Journalism Review took the monthly magazine Philadelphia to task for refusing to run an unflattering pre-election investigative report that it had assigned on Frank Rizzo, the city's tough police commissioner who is now mayor-elect...
...crimes" are violations of specific?and fragile?taboos. Though a soldier may kill any enemy civilian who seeks to attack him, for example, he may not deliberately harm those who do not. The rules protect defeated enemy troops, the wounded, parachuting airmen and other helpless people. Forbidden weapons include dumdum bullets and poison. Forbidden targets include hospitals, churches, museums and coastal fishing boats unless used for military purposes. Torture, looting and political assassinations are banned. Reprisals are permitted against illegal enemy acts, but only on orders from top commanders and never against civilians, who may not be punished without trial...