Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUND OF MURDER echoes in the voices of a wife and her lover who plot the perfect solution to a husband who won't grant a divorce. The drama, by William Fairchild, stars Jeannie Carson, Hurd Hatfield and Biff McGuire. Dennis, Mass., Aug. 11-16; Skowhegan, Me., Aug. 18-23; Ivoryton, Conn...
Last week the aura of intrigue was deepened and tinged with scandal when the Army's Saigon command announced that eight Green Berets, including the Special Forces commander for all of Viet Nam, had been detained while the Army investigated charges of premeditated murder against them in the shooting of a South Vietnamese. The commander is Colonel Robert B. Rheault, 43, a much-decorated West Pointer. Also arrested were two majors, three captains, a chief warrant officer and a ser geant first class...
Rarely has an officer of Rheault's high rank faced a murder charge. Thus the case sent ripples of disbelief and disillusionment through Army camps and mess halls. Rheault had been respected and well liked by his men. Said one Green Beret captain: "My first reaction was shock. The second was that Colonel Rheault was getting shafted." Several soldiers had first thought that Rheault was relieved of duty in order to be promoted to brigadier general...
...four of the accused had hired civilian lawyers. Two of the attorneys received security clearances, reinforcing the belief that the case involves some supersecret operation. The Army is now investigating the charges to see if there are grounds for a court-martial. Conviction on a charge of premeditated murder carries a maximum penalty of death...
...Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant,* were asked to give up many of their tribal cultural traditions. Not only were the most dehumanizing practices proscribed-ritual murder, human sacrifice, slavery-but also many other institutions that were an intricate part of the fabric of communal life. Polygamy was almost universally forbidden. The ancestor cult, a belief that the dead remained a part of the village and should help control its life, was discredited. Ritual dances and chants, ritual drinking, even the traditional and critical rites of passage-ceremonies marking birth, death, puberty, marriage-were treated as lapses into heathenism. Though...