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...Purger. The measure of Khrushchev's failure came in World War II when millions of Ukrainians went over to the Germans without a fight. Stupidly rejecting this free offering, the Nazis launched a mass slaughter which so aroused the survivors as to provide the Red army with a vast guerrilla underground that slashed at the Wehrmacht's rear. Khrushchev, a lieutenant general, commanded a Ukrainian guerrilla army, and won a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Political commissar for all Russian armies on the southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans...
...soldier, just as in every other major venture of his life, Read excelled. He quickly rose to the rank of captain and won the D.S.O. for his heroism in battle. But he returned from the trenches horrified by the senseless slaughter he had witnessed, and resolved never again to aid a war effort. The casual thoughts of pre-war days crystallized into an ardent pacifism...
...more Dafias came howling out of the forest to rush the Indian camp behind a sudden blizzard of poisoned arrows and long spears. Those inside the major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
...closed to both French and Mexican cattle because of the virulent foot-and-mouth disease.The U.S. Agriculture Department even refused to allow shipment of frozen Charolais semen into the country. Last week, however, 76 Charolais grazed on pastures near Lafayette, La.-in quarantine, facing possible slaughter or deportation...
...Government computation) in duty penalties. Last week federal officials were preparing to present their case against Broussard to a grand jury. Mexico demanded that the Charolais be returned, but the U.S., ever fearful of foot-and-mouth contagion and southern tick fever, wondered whether it shouldn't slaughter the cattle and wind up the case once...