Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green Beret master sergeant who is now "military editor" of muckraking Ramparts magazine, testified that Vietnamese irregulars, usually Montagnard tribesmen, cut off the right ears of slain enemies to collect up to $10 per capita bounty from Special Forces. "Cutting off an ear," he explained, "was considered proof that you had killed a man." It was a gruesome practice indulged in by irregular troops-not the regular Vietnamese army. Asked about Vietnamese mistreatment of prisoners, Duncan said: "Beatings and general brutality were the order of the day. Normally, when it started, you would turn around and light a cigarette...
...fully replaced by coins of copper and nickel. Silver speculators, however, took the curbs as a signal that by year's end, when the Treasury expects to have sufficient "clad" coins available, it will stop holding down the domestic price of silver by selling it for $1.29 per oz. Next day, traders on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange bid up the price of silver to $1.67 per oz. Though the price of the metal for immediate delivery eased to $1.5085 by the end of last week, silver for May 1968 delivery rose as high as $1.60 before closing...
...once vast hoard of the metal shrank by mid-May to a mere 485 million oz. (a quarter of its 1960 size) as the Government was forced to stick to its policy of selling silver at a low-pegged price. For if the price of silver rises above $1.40 per oz., it becomes theoretically profitable to melt silver dimes, quarters and pre-1966 half dollars for their metallic content...
...Stock Exchange, where silver shares climbed rapidly. In the past fortnight, Hecla gained 8 points to 55¾, Bunker Hill 6¾ points to 36⅜|, Sunshine Mining 3½ points to 32½. In short, investors seem to be betting that the price of silver will top $2 per oz.-a few even talk of $3 per oz.-once the U.S. stockpile is exhausted...
Inspite of its minor weaknesses, therefore, this petition sausfies almost every point of view. Sponsors of the document -- the student body presidents and editors who met with Secretary of State Rusk -- say they'll be satisfied if 25 per cent of the students here sign. But if their past claims about increasing student "concern" and "questioning" have been correct, the proportion must be much higher. The student leaders cannot veil the crucial test of strength this petition represents. If the "mainstream" of American youth is asking sharper questions about the war, this petition is certainly inclusive enough to show...