Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of a Binh Dinh tea plantation, a Viet Cong court declared that 20 defendants owed a "blood debt to the people." The result: at a midnight gathering in the local sports stadium, three of the prisoners were shot to death by a Viet Cong platoon leader. The other 17 were given prison sentences ranging from two to five years...
...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Suddenly the stillness was broken by deep grunts as silhouettes appeared scaling a nearby fence. The silhouettes advanced, and so did the Marines, blasting away with blanks. Finally a Spanish-speaking sergeant understood the frightened shouts and curses of the ambushed platoon. In fact, it was a band of Mexican migrant workers trying to enter the country illegally for the harvest season. They had made their way close to 80 miles north of the border...
...were eight-year-old girls who were smaller than the rifles they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want to mobilize our country old and young. We would not attack first, but we are ready to mobilize to repel any intruders." But who? Americans? Russians? Japanese? Said Kung...
...11th Infantry Brigade just one day before the assault on the hamlet, came as no surprise. Last month, having earlier been acquitted of all charges relating to his role in the incident, former Captain Ernest Medina testified at Henderson's trial. He admitted that although his platoon leaders had told him that at least 106 Vietnamese had been killed, he informed Henderson that the casualties had numbered only 20 to 28, and that "I would not let anything like that happen." With Medina's testimony, the case against Henderson was seriously undermined. Of the 25 men who originally...