Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same loophole that lets out one man can accommodate a hundred more. if all are properly informed. The problem is that such campaigns of attrition will be futile-and will lead to even greater class discrimination in the draft-as long as thousands of victims ride uninformed to the slaughter. Cambridge needs books like IV-F and the Handbook: but the Army's supply of hamburger will be cut off only when the lifesaving manuals also reach Chelsea. Roxbury, and other favorite manpower pools...
...staged occasional attacks on civilians as well as on soldiers. Especially in border areas, the government is apparently using the prisoners as hostages, in the hope of warding off attacks by Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops. Two weeks ago, the sound of Communist gunfire prompted Cambodian troops to slaughter 90 prisoners in a camp at Prasaut. Late last week, near an area of heavy fighting in Takeo province, about 50 miles south of Phnom-Penh, Cambodian soldiers opened fire on more than 200 Vietnamese held prisoner at another camp (see box, page...
...more of the same kind of killing. All of the victims had been shot by automatic gunfire at point-blank range, and many had their hands tied behind their backs. By conservative estimate, several hundred bodies were counted floating southward on the river. It was chillingly reminiscent of the slaughter of Communists in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, when anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 perished. The regime denied any involvement, speculating feebly that the Vietnamese had been killed in "boat sinkings." The fact is that Cambodia's new leaders have encouraged a hate campaign against the Vietnamese...
...Endangered Species Committee also will sponsor a teach-in next Wednesday at Allston-Burr Hall concerning the slaughter of seal pups in Alaska. Conservationist John Walsh will speak...
...photogenic appeal of baby seals plagues both those who kill them and those who sanction the slaughter. Last year in the wake of a worldwide outcry over the inhumane clubbing of the cuddly, snow-white pups that takes place every March off Canada's east c o a s t , t h e C a n a d i a n g o v e r n m e n t t h o u g h t i t h a d f i n a l l y f o u n d a solution that would...