Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Training Program. But the Viet Cong overplayed their hand. They took rice and livestock from the montagnards in order to feed their guerrillas, used terror tactics against the more recalcitrant mountain villages. Tens of thousands of montagnards fled to government-held territory. Prodded by the U.S., President Ngo Dinh Diem's government has begun an attempt to win the montagnards over with a resettlement program. Even more important, U.S. military advisers have started a program to arm and train montagnards, who then are sent back into the hills to defend their villages and to keep the surrounding territory...
...Roberto, who has kept the revolt against Portugal's harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body from going to heaven; men's penises were chopped off and nailed to trees, women were impaled on sticks. One coffee...
...assassination attempts by the other faction. Should the two organizations ever reach a truce, Angola could once more be drenched in blood. The rebels now have automatic weapons and land mines; plastiqueurs trained by Algeria's F.L.N. have begun to infiltrate into Angola, ready to continue the terror with their plastic bombs...
...after looking back on my one and only jump, that the experience of parachuting can get through to you pretty deeply. It can force you in on yourself as never before, and it can take you away from yourself--for four seconds--as never before. It isn't all terror, nor is it all thrill. Nor does the adventure last for only the few minutes of decent from exit to landing...
...fewer than in past years, but they do not know why. Neither does the reader, who is left to speculate on plagues and warfare. Golding gives no more information than is available through the eyes of the Neanderthals-a difficult technique, but well suited to evoking the bleak terror of a race's ending...