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...government inflicting violence, even violence in the name of the people. No television cameraman was allowed to cover the carpet bombing of Hanoi. No newspaper picture has ever shown the final gasp of an electric chair victim. When 1000 New York State troopers, sheriff's deputies, and prison guards overran Attica State Prison in September 1971, no photographer was permitted to see police bullets cut down 28 prisoners and 9 of their hostages. As a result, Walter B. Dunbar, then New York's deputy commissioner of corrections, was able to tell reporters incorrectly that inmates had slit the hostages' throats...
Last fall the B.C.P. suddenly struck again. An estimated 10,000 insurgents overran the government garrison at Mongyang and threatened the city of Kengtung, which commands the approach to the strategic Mekong River and to Thailand. In December government forces regained Mongyang. The insurgents apparently still control some 10,000 sq. mi. north of Kengtung, where they have tied up as many as 20 battalions of the 135,000-man Burmese army...
...bracing nonetheless. Said one aide, "He didn't mean there weren't some people getting shot in Northern Ireland or that the shelling of Phnom-Penh couldn't resume. But in organized military operations, nothing was happening." The peace was brief. Last week government forces overran three insurgent positions south of Phnom-Penh, heavy air and artillery attacks took place near the Plain of Reeds in South Viet Nam, and thousands of soldiers mutinied in Ethiopia (see THE WORLD...
...Early last month the insurgents occupied the towns of Parang and Maimbung on Jolo Island. Then at dawn two weeks ago several hundred Moslem guerrillas infiltrated Jolo city, the island's chief town, while more than 1,500 attacked from outside. Taking government forces by surprise, they quickly overran the airport, occupied the headquarters of the 1st Army Brigade, and captured nearby Notre Dame College. The government counterattacked with more than 5,000 troops and ordered the city -whose population had been swollen to 80,000 by refugees-to be strafed by F-86 Sabre jets and bombarded...
...Department of Defense civilian employee in Viet Nam who reported to the Pentagon on the performance of the South Vietnamese navy, was aboard one of the Vietnamese ships when the fighting erupted. For safety's sake he was put ashore on Pattle Island, but Chinese troops overran the island and captured Kosh...