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...Human Shield. In South Viet Nam, the gases have been used on the battlefield at least half a dozen times, but never with much success. The first time was last December in an attempt to free four U.S. prisoners of the Viet Cong. U.S. officers hoped to incapacitate everyone, prisoners and captors alike, then send in a masked Special Forces Unit to rescue the Americans. The operation failed because the gas, squirted through air hoses from a helicopter overhead, could not penetrate the dense foliage...
...another occasion, the Viet Cong seized a group of villagers and tried to use them as a human shield. Rather than kill women and children, as they had done in a similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...
...final 50 yds., and arriving at the pinnacle placed there a copy of Jack Kennedy's inaugural address, a packet of PT-boat tie clasps, similar to the ones that the late President used to give visitors and voters. He also planted the Kennedy family flag-a shield showing three gold helmets on a black background, topped with a hand holding four gold-tipped arrows. Bobby meant to leave the flag there, but his colleagues warned him that the winds and snows would destroy it within 48 hours. He removed it, furled it and brought it back home...
Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren utterly rejected Singer's "bald proposition." The Constitution, he said, provides for no more and no less than "impartial trial by jury." To its framers, in fact, jury trial was such a vital shield against oppression that some of them regarded it as the only permissible way of determining guilt. Not until 1930 did the Supreme Court rule that defendants can waive jury trial in federal criminal cases but then only with permission of both judge and prosecutor...
...adopted in 1934 to thwart Nazi spies hunting German assets that had fled and were hidden abroad. Later Geneva was regarded as the financing center for both extremes in the Algerian war-the French O.A.S. and the Algerian F.L.N. Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks shield dol lars that have evaded U.S. taxes and foreign aid funds diverted by grafters in underdeveloped nations...