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...Shan were killed and 31 injured, he says?but also caused U.W.S.A. casualties and sowed panic in its ranks. Today the Wa fortifications below seem deserted, but Yawd Serk's soldiers are taking no chances. Nearby, on grassy slopes recently littered with Wa corpses, they plant fields of punji stakes made from sharpened bamboo to prevent a repeat assault...
...testimony last week, Westmoreland insisted that the nonuniformed forces in dispute were civilians, mainly old men, women and youths engaged in such home-guard activities as digging fortifications, laying mines and planting poisoned punji sticks as booby traps near their villages. They were not, he said, "fighters who could damage us, who we had to destroy." Westmoreland maintained that listing these irregulars as enemy troops could have sapped the spirit of U.S. soldiers. Said he: "It would be terribly detrimental to the morale of my troops to find out the enemy has increased...
Cambodia experts have picked up numerous errors of fact. Samples: Phnom Malai is a mountain range, not the capital city of Democratic Kampuchea; the Khmer Rouge do not put poison on their punji sticks; Comrade Kanika, who is described by Jones as "a wiry man with short gray hair," is actually a woman-and has represented the Cambodians in Paris for several years...
Some growers are booby-trapping their patches, and not just to keep out the police. The pot farmers must also fight off poachers, many of them local teenagers. Fields have been found equipped with electrical alarm systems, guard dogs, shotgun traps and even punji sticks, the sharpened stakes used by the Viet Cong to pierce the feet of patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion...
...arguments hissed after each other like a confused dog biting after its tail. Broke down and full of nonsense and waiting for the sunrise so he could sleep, he tried a different tactic: "Do you know about punji sticks...