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...have fought-and died -in the nation's wars (and Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre of 1770, prelude to the American Revolution). Yet always the verdict was the same: in combat, Negro units were "unreliable"-a euphemism for an uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song of the [Negro] 24th Infantry Regiment...
...desperately attempting to block an armistice, Syngman Rhee had just about used up all the arguments he knew. Last week South Korea's stubborn old man used an uglier and more dangerous tool...
...seen uglier human beings," said Dr. Smith, who had already named the fish Malania artjouanae, in honor of the Prime Minister. To Dr. Smith, the fish was worth all the diamonds in South Africa. It was the end of a 15-year search...
...trailblazers of Communism, filtering across its eastern marchlands from Red-infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
Next night the crowd was back, again, bigger and in an uglier mood. The 50 cops made no effort to stop teen-agers who, from well-hidden positions, tossed stones at windows in the Clark apartment...