Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then sheep and goats were easy to recognize, local fauna; good meant Giles the shoemaker taking care of the village ninny, evil Count ffoulkes who in his tall donjon Indulged in sinister eccentricities.
Many other South Vietnamese have been killed in the random violence designed to paralyze South Viet Nam and frighten its people into abandoning the government. Forty-three were killed and 80 injured, most of them civilians, when terrorists dynamited the My Canh floating restaurant in Saigon in 1965. Forty-eight...
Not all Communist terrorism is carried out at random. Thousands of Vietnamese have died in well-planned massacres. In 1967, Montagnard tribesmen, who had fled the Communists a year earlier, were set upon in their new home at Dak Son 75 miles northeast of Saigon. Six hundred Viet Cong, 60...
The Communist slaughter of civilians was wholesale while the Communists held the old imperial capital of Hué during their 1968 Tet offensive. Working from house to house with specially prepared "blood lists," they rounded up all officials and people suspected of working with the U.S. and Saigon governments. Some...
Two world wars changed all that. The Nurnberg Trial of 22 Nazi leaders after World War II revived one of the great tenets of Western thought: that a higher law sometimes requires men to give their primary allegiance to humanity rather than the State. Although the Nazi defendants pleaded "state...