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...specific?and fragile?taboos. Though a soldier may kill any enemy civilian who seeks to attack him, for example, he may not deliberately harm those who do not. The rules protect defeated enemy troops, the wounded, parachuting airmen and other helpless people. Forbidden weapons include dumdum bullets and poison. Forbidden targets include hospitals, churches, museums and coastal fishing boats unless used for military purposes. Torture, looting and political assassinations are banned. Reprisals are permitted against illegal enemy acts, but only on orders from top commanders and never against civilians, who may not be punished without trial before a court. Civilians...
...Johnson's dilemma of three years ago. Nixon is committed to a policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before his test in South Viet Nam's presidential...
Married couples are as free as fencers. In the thrust and parry, each partner pinks the other, helping to drain away the anger and frustration that might otherwise fester within and poison the self. But the divorced person shadowboxes with a vivid phantom, the past. He or she is bound to an enemy that cannot be hit or flattened-memory. For the divorced, recollection is impacted pain. Regrets, bitterness, envy, hate stalk the mind...
...scene is complete without its obligatory corpses: various Old Massas die from fire, asp and poison (stomach "exploding like an infernal machine"). Sensuality, in turn, has an almost murderous force. Always there are the users and the used. Slave caravans seem to march across the top of every page like an endless frieze...
...Last month they accompanied Sudanese army units in a raid on the main guerrilla camp, Owing-ki-bul (an Acholi war cry that means "Hear the drums sounding"), attacking the southerners by surprise while many were bathing in a river. The rebel Anyanya (who took their name from the poison of a cobra or scorpion) lost a dozen men and considerable equipment. A bombing raid against a rebel base at Morta near the Uganda border caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties...