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...trial of William Galley, we hear that the killings at My Lai were justified, but in our hearts we will always know that there is no justification for killing two-year-olds pointblank, be they ally or enemy...
...third of them black. Some of the toughest are young militants transferred from Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, where 225 blacks staged a sitdown last year to protest the prolonged solitary confinement of their leaders. Instead of using tear gas or other nonlethal weapons, Pendleton guards fired shotguns pointblank into the unarmed crowd, killing two blacks and seriously wounding 45. One official gasped: "They slaughtered them like pigs...
...city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...
...shot in the right arm; he was the city's fourth officer to be sniped at in less than a week, and a nightlong hunt through the surrounding swamps failed to yield a suspect. Worst of all, within a scant three days, one Philadelphia policeman was shot dead pointblank and six others were wounded in a series of apparently unrelated incidents. A gunman, whom police described as black, walked into the guardhouse of a West Philadelphia park and pumped five bullets into Sergeant Frank VonColln, 43, as he sat quietly behind his desk. As always when one of their...
Even if investigation of Israel's complaint should prove only the completion of military emplacements already under way before the cease-fire took effect, the U.S. has basically only two unpleasant alternatives: a pointblank demand for the Soviet Union to remove the new hardware, or U.S. shipments of equally powerful arms to Israel, including anti-missile electronic gear and jets that Israel has repeatedly requested since last September. The peril in the first course is that it sets up precisely the big-power confrontation that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have tried to avoid in the Middle...