Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drowned Out. Every G.I. arriving in Viet Nam receives a list of forbidden "war crimes and related acts," including torture, looting, mutilation of enemy dead and the "killing of spies or other persons who have committed hostile acts without trial." Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which Calley is accused of violating, holds a U.S. trooper equally guilty of murder whether his victim is a Vietnamese civilian, an enemy prisoner or a fellow American...
Despite the rules, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam-and prosecution has often been prompt. In the I Corps area last year, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nevertheless, all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
...retains a nuclear arsenal big enough to deter potential enemies despite the elimination of the biological stocks. The President also made it absolutely clear that the restrictions on chemical weapons did not include CS gas-a stronger version of tear gas-or defoliants that are being used in Viet Nam. But the proscribing of germ warfare and the restated strictures on chemical warfare provide concrete evidence of America's strong desire to slow down the arms race. Together with the joint signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty by the U.S. and the Soviets (see THE WORLD), Nixon...
...Democratic Deputies filibustered against the bill. Replying to their protests, Sponsor Fortuna said: "Even now it is possible to break up a family by buying a fiscal stamp for 400 lire [66?]-the price of an application for a legal separation." Outside Parliament, demonstrators waved banners reading "Even Viet Nam has divorce" and "Divorce is for everyone...
...particular friend of Peking, Li's rank was significant. A few days later, he was in the group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official to make a statement on Richard Nixon's major address on Viet Nam. His line at the time was a tough one. He charged that "U.S. imperialism will never abandon its criminal aim of vainly trying to perpetuate its forcible occupation of South Viet Nam." He also condemned the Middle East policies of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The two nations...