Word: junkmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been patrolled by "the Black Pajama Navy" -a force of 500 junks and 4,000 conscripts who resemble freebooters more than freedom fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year. But of the 830,000 persons aboard, only 1,850 were arrested...