Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience in Malaya convinced Thompson that counterinsurgency does not require massive forces, large-scale bombing or continual pursuit of the enemy. He contends that such tactics play into the hands of guerrillas by increasing casualties and enlarging the scope of the combat. Thompson emphasizes localized "police" actions to protect the population against guerrilla attacks and to ferret out subversives. That proved easier in Malaya, where the terrorists were often ethnically different from the local population, than in Viet Nam, where friend and foe may be indistinguishable. The Malaya guerrillas also had no handy sanctuaries across nearby borders...
...talks are resumed, U.S. officials do not expect any immediate progress. For one thing, the Chinese Communists demand, as a precondition for even the smallest agreement, that the U.S. abandon the Nationalist government on Taiwan. Also, few Westerners comprehend how far Mao's China will go to protect its ideological purity. In the minds of Chinese leaders, cultural exchanges and the arrival of Western journalists would only serve to sully the haven of unadulterated Communism. In fact, the most that the U.S. could hope for in the near future would be an agreement to hold regular discussions. These might...
...defense joined in protesting the news reports, but it also offered another argument. By holding Calley in the military beyond his discharge date, said his lawyers, the Army is keeping him in "involuntary servitude." Arguing that a court-martial does not adequately protect a defendant's rights, they made a motion to dismiss the charges. Even Calley's career-Army lawyer, Major Kenneth Raby, concurred, quoting a recent Supreme Court decision that criticizes military trials as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...
Unfortunately, the Quincy contest was not sanctioned by the American Pancake Eaters Association (A.P.E.A.), so its rules and violations committee cannot take charge and disqualify Tarnas while declaring the rightful winner. The A.P.E.A. has had to protect itself against such addicts. and Rule XII, section 2a of the Association's bylaws reads: "No contestant shall be admitted if under the influence of marijuana." Barton, Sir Flap-Jack, and I knew this rule as card-carrying members of the A.P.E.A. and did not resort to such stunts no matter how badly we wanted to win, and let me make this perfectly...
...hill. If you don't kill him, the Panthers will." They have set up free health clinics for blacks in several cities, but the Black Panther Coloring Book shows a black man shooting a pig-faced policeman as a young black girl looks on. The caption: "Black Brothers Protect Black Children...