Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their objective is political, says the specialist. It is to inflict "the maximum number of American casualties within the shortest time period. They are banking on the shock value to merge with uninformed opinion in the U.S. to put pressure on the Johnson Administration to get out of Viet Nam." In purely military terms, of course, Hanoi's objective is to pin down the greatest possible number of American troops in the defensive position most favorable to the North Vietnamese, thus markedly reducing U.S. pressure on the Communist forces operating in the rest of I Corps...
...School of Economics professor turned up more than 350 beatings in just four schools last year; in one of them, the boys averaged two beatings each a year. The approved schools in England and Wales listed 2,968 beatings last year. Local education authorities have the legal right to inflict corporal punishment in Britain, and the Home Office even provides some rules on how it should be done. The cane must be a yard long and between 8 mm. and 10 mm. thick. A boy cannot be beaten with his trousers off or with his shirt tail pulled...
...Drang also demonstrated that Communist soldiers would stand and fight against the Americans; Hanoi had had considerable fears that they might not. Eventually, the jungle colloquium worked out an important new tactic: the use of bunkers manned by a small force to screen main-force units and inflict casualties on U.S. infantrymen while the main-force fighters escaped. The Communists have been using that tactic with considerable success ever since. Last month, for example, a company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ran into a small group of Red soldiers and gave chase. The pursuit led them into a crossfire...
Structural Flaws. Congress has also begun to suspect-quite correctly-that something fundamental is amiss. New Jersey Representative William B. Widnall, ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, last month voiced fears that financial strains may inflict "permanent damage" on the housing industry and "lead to an intolerable housing shortage in the years ahead." Last week in the Senate, Alabama Democrat John Sparkman's housing subcommittee resumed what promises to be a lengthy search for cures. Most of the witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market...
...pacifist living with a woman, who takes a stand against what war does, can reach a higher state of moral consciousness than, say, a businessman who is faithful to his wife, yet never thinks about his nation's right to inflict cruelties against the Viet Cong...