Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specially poignant moment in the already emotion-charged trial of Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. For most of an afternoon and the following morning, Thomas Turner, the prosecution's 34th and next to last witness, had described in measured tones how Calley had directed and participated in the slaughter of scores of women, children and old men. Turner was a fireteam leader in Calley's platoon at My Lai. His testimony had been the most damaging thus far, methodically lacing together the events described by earlier witnesses. But as he left the stand, Turner approached Calley and placed...
Meadlo, one man said to be close to Calley at both slaughter sites, had talked freely about his and Calley's role at My Lai when the case surfaced a year ago. But now Meadlo was claiming Fifth Amendment protection against selfincrimination. The Government has not attempted to prosecute any of the servicemen now out of the Army. The prosecution offered Meadlo a grant of immunity signed by Major General Orwin Talbott, commander of Fort Benning. Meadlo's lawyer argued that the writ was worthless, that his client might conceivably be tried by some special tribunal...
Coming off a 12-0 slaughter of North-eastern and the news of Cornell's first less in two years, the Crimson is flying. Harvard is a clear favorite to win its Ivy League opener, even though it will have to play before a Saturday night crowd in Hanover that lacks the moral rectitude of the Dartmouth team...
...father, he chews out his kid about his job ("Where d'ya get $25,000? Sell women? Marijuana? Hustle yourself all over the street? Small time!") and about his companions ("Fags!"). Then he cuts out to do the job on his own. Along the route to the ritual slaughter, McCain meets an old girl friend (Gena Rowlands), a new wife (Britt Ekland) and enough unsavory characters to provide a neat 94 minutes of bloodshed and nastiness...
MEANWHILE, the new government had outlawed the two-million member PKI and embarked on a massive pogrom which resulted in the slaughter of an estimated 500,000 Communists and suspected sympathizers. After the mass murders, Suharto imprisoned more than 100,000 others for alleged political offenses. Arbitrary arrests continued to be common, and last November the government began settling the prisoners as "colonists" in outlying areas of the country. Reported conditions of starvation and torture in Indonesian jails have been the subject of international protest, and even outside prison walls, local military officials have enforced systematic discrimination against politically uncooperative...