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...pointed and perceptive, but you're talking about terminology, not language. Language is alive and human; terminology is stagnant and mechanistic. When "war" (language) can easily be transformed into "pacification" (terminology), then "right" and "wrong" (language) become matters of "rationalization" (terminology). Language like "open housing," "poverty" and, "My Lai" require people to take stands; terminology imposes no such moral imperative because it explains away conscience and integrity and thus makes man less human...
...sources said the Khe Sanh base would be closed within three weeks as the helicopter units shifted operations eastward to their headquarters at Chu Lai...
...Lai 4." The standard procedure, he said, was to sweep through such a village and herd its inhabitants into an open space on the far side. When he learned how many innocent civilians had been killed, said Medina, his reaction was, "Oh my God, what is ... What has happened?" Now the six-man jury of officers, who will begin their deliberations this week, must decide whether Calley or Medina was lying...
Child of the Nation. An irony of Indira's extraordinary showing was that the old conservative bosses who once ruled her party chose her to replace the late Lai Bahadur Shastri in 1966 primarily because they thought they could manipulate her. Though no modern leader has been so carefully groomed for leadership as Indira was in her father's house, there was no hint that her sense of duty would become one of mission, even destiny. As Nehru's only daughter, she grew up "a child of the nation," known and loved...
Last week, during a surprise visit to Hanoi, China's Premier Chou En-lai retaliated by indulging in a little psychological warfare himself. North Viet Nam and China, he said, are "the front line" and "the rear area" of the war. The two countries are as closely linked as "lips and teeth." Should the U.S. "go down the road of expanding its war of aggression," declared a communique signed by Chou and Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong, the Chinese people would "take all necessary measures, not flinching even from the greatest national sacrifices," to help the North...