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Instead, Koster, one of the promising young combat generals in the Army -he was then only 48-became a key figure in a massive attempt to cover up the slaughter. When the story of My Lai broke, Koster was super intendent of West Point, often a steppingstone on the way up to the higher echelons of the Army. He resigned from his post and, after an investigation, was censured and reduced to brigadier general. He later retired from the Army...
...this task the writers need an appropriate language, and a grounding in the day-to-day experience of the people with a special bond. Muscle and Blood is best when Rachel Scott is mad, and I get mad, too, when I think not only of the slaughter but of the suicides, of James Johnson who was massacred. He murdered himself, just like the terminal alcoholics in Hamtramck and the junkies on the line in Lordstown and the men who drive like hellfire out of company parking lots and snuff themselves out on their way home from work. These figurative suicides...
...workers' happiness but their survival that's on the market. Sociological constructs of "alienation" and "job stimulation" mean little next to blatant threats of injury, sickness and death. Scott's book is less about "industrial hygiene" than it is about industrial murder. Massacre, she calls it. Slaughter. Carnage...
Voicing similar demands, other groups of farmers have staged their own slaughters in recent weeks, with photographers and reporters nearly outnumbering cattlemen. Near Utica, N.Y., dairy farmers herded 100 calves into a packing plant, killed them, and distributed the meat to local Mennonites. In Texas, a mass slaughter of 3,000 calves was halted last month, but only after a meeting was scheduled between farmers and Agriculture Department officials...
...Slaughter is a barnacled publicity-getting gimmick used frequently by farmers in bad times. During the Depression, cattlemen killed entire herds because beef prices could not cover costs of livestock shipments. But with the slaughters occurring as they do in the midst of a growing awareness of the world food crisis, the farmers seem to have hurt their cause rather than helped it. President Ford called one Wisconsin slaughter "shocking and wasteful," saying it did nothing to solve the farmers' problem. The Humane Society of the U.S. condemned "the needless killing of any living creature ... for publicity purposes." Some...