Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students Protest Israeli General...
...crowd of about 40 people opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank staged the second protest this fall against an Israeli general's fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) yesterday evening...
THERE was, for some U.S. officials, a third, more frightening possibility. Could the entire affair have been a trap engineered by the general himself, to ensnare disloyal officers of the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) and the American forces stationed in Panama...
Call up Eddie Adams' 1968 photo of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief of Saigon, firing his snub-nosed revolver into the temple of a Viet Cong officer. Bright sunlight, Saigon: the scrawny police chief's arm, outstretched, goes by extension through the trigger finger into the V.C.'s brain. That photograph, and another in 1972 showing a naked young Vietnamese girl running in arms-outstretched terror up a road away from American napalm, outmanned the force of three U.S. Presidents and the most powerful Army in the world. The photographs were considered, quite ridiculously, to be a portrait...
...picture of Loan executing the Viet Cong officer. What the picture does not show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...