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...masterpieces, Rosselini's Open City and Visconti's La Terra Trema. But where those two films dealt entirely with killing and oppression of the weak by Fascists and reactionary capitalists, the killing of innocent people in Algiers is committed mostly by the NLF, Pontecorvo's heroes. In accepting the slaughter of hundreds of citizens, guilty only in their complacent acceptance of a derelict social structure, Pontecorvo emphasizes the validity of necessary social upheaval, regardless of its price. Each death becomes not a crime of the NLF but the tragic consequence of years of unjust colonialism and prejudice...
...also paid another kind of price. By choosing for their attack the time of Tet, the sacred family time of the year for the Vietnamese, they undoubtedly alienated major portions of the population. They also brought bullets and bombs into the very midst of heavily populated areas, causing indiscriminate slaughter of civilians caught in the crossfire and making homeless twice over the refugees who had fled to the cities for safety. Moreover, they totally misjudged the mood of the South Vietnamese. Believing their own propaganda, the Communists called for and expected a popular uprising to welcome the raiders as liberators...
...ghettos will continue to be rotten places to live. Black and Mexican farm workers will continue to get miserable wages. America's schools will continue to cripple the minds and hearts of its pupils. And the American Selective Service System will continue to send young men out to the slaughter...
...Crossing Roads. A massive slaughter campaign to halt the spread of the disease, which affects almost all hooved animals, has turned Britain's prize stock farms into scenes of tragic carnage. Squads of soldiers, equipped with captive-bolt pistols and high-power rifles, have been killing cattle in infected areas as fast as they can shoot. More than 280,000 cows, bulls, sheep and pigs have already been slaughtered. Tractors pull the piles of carcasses to massive graves, and the pyres of burning animals nightly throw their smoke into the Shropshire sky. Soldiers and airmen have sprayed thousands...
...tried to keep his men in line, but without much success. Ragtag recruits who "mop up" after Gowon's armies have joined local tribesmen brandishing machetes and cutlasses in "Ibo hunts." In the Midwest, they rounded up thousands of Ibo and marched them into the bush for slaughter...