Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking Turns. War atrocities, of course, are not new in Viet Nam. From the first, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have made terror part of their overall war tactic, decapitating village chiefs, assassinating pacification workers, looting and leveling hamlets and murdering American war prisoners. On the American side, G.I.s generally resist the temptation to retaliate, but a minority now and then will cut off a few fingers or ears from the enemy dead as trophies. Such was the case with Specialist Fourth Class George Pawlaczyk, 22, a reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth...
Numbering 750 hard-core fighters, plus several thousand support troops, the guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Indonesian military sites and terrorized Malaysian border areas since July. They have also tried to enlist by intimidation Borneo's primitive Dayak tribesmen, the descendants of legendary headhunters. This tactic provoked a reaction that their Maoist guerrilla handbooks did not even hint at. Meeting terror with terror, the Dayaks exploded in an avenging rampage of killing, burning and cannibalism against all Chinese...
Harvard Coach Floyd Wilson experimented with several player combinations and a full court press, but the Harvard shooting hand was cold. All Wilson really accomplished by his shuttle tactic was to spread out the scoring: Barth Royer had 12 points, Bobby Johnson 11 and captain Bob Beller...
...Power Tactic...
This is a power tactic which might be used more and more, according to Benjamin A. Barnes '68, president of PBH. He said, "The number of hours in the field are good-will in the bank, and legitimate a student's activist role in a community ushing for change...