Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outgoingness, the high spirits, are not to be confused with braggadocio. The stigma of being called a war criminal, the 19 agonizing months of facing charges for premeditated murder, have taken their toll. When the Army first charged him, Calley went into a deep depression. "After about a month," he explains, "I just faced myself and asked, Do you want to quit living?' At worst, t knew I had one year left, and I decided I wanted to do something before 1 die. I decided I would look other people in the eye again...
WITH the awesome fury of a cyclone off the Bay of Bengal, civil war swept across East Pakistan last week. In city after crowded, dusty city the army turned its guns on mobs of rioting civilians. Casualties mounted into the thousands. Though the full toll remained uncertain because of censorship and disorganization in the world's most densely populated corner (1,400 people per sq. mi.), at week's end some estimates had 2,000 dead. Even if President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan is prepared to accept casualties of a geometrically greater magnitude, the outcome is likely...
...what may have been the heaviest death toll on a U. S. installation in the war, 33 Americans are dead and 76 wounded after a Viet Cong attack Sunday on Fire Base Mary Ann, an artillery base 50 miles south of Da Nang...
Casualties reports were conflicting, but one Indian press report said the death toll has reached...
...Communist supply effort, it has done so only temporarily. If South Vietnamese forces do stay in Laos until mid-April, the Communists will still have several weeks to recoup before the monsoon completely closes the trail. To win this temporary advantage, the allies have paid dearly. Though the U.S. toll has been relatively light-69 dead or missing, 64 wounded, 73 helicopters destroyed-the South Vietnamese suffered considerable casualties. Saigon admits to 918 ARVN dead, but unofficial estimates put the toll closer to 2,000 crack troops dead or missing and another 4,000 wounded. Compared with Cambodia...