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Summing up all this evidence about the behavior of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army in Hué, one thing is abundantly clear and ought to surprise no one They put into practice, with their usual efficiency, the traditional Communist policy of punishing by execution selected leaders who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: AN EFFICIENT SLAUGHTER | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

Red Sneers. From Budapest to Peking, Communists greeted the gold stampede with outright gloating-showing at least that Lenin's followers still heed his counsel: "The way to defeat the capitalist system is to debauch its currency." Crowed the Polish trade-union council, Glos Pracy: "The dollar is doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: It Could Be Dawn | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Having defied Britain and shown its independence by executing five blacks in spite of a royal reprieve, the breakaway government of Prime Minister Ian Smith decided last week that a little mercy was in order. It commuted the death sentences of 44 blacks awaiting execution, including four who were within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: A Little Mercy | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

"Essentially Evil." Under a stringent new Law and Order Maintenance Act that makes even the possession of terrorist weapons a capital offense, the number of Africans awaiting execution in Rhodesia has risen to 115 since se cession (v. only twelve before). Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: The Hanging of Hopes | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Suitable Heroism. The diary business out of the way, Michéle concentrated on the mystique of Che's death. She came across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Fairy Tales | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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