Word: french
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles...
...Force Barker, their assignment in March was a fearsome one: to clear the Viet Cong out of Quang Ngai province?an area long known as "the cradle of revolution" in Viet Nam. The province had produced and harbored some of the Viet Minh's most effective fighters against the French. It had even been the target of the very first U.S. assault in the war. That was Operation Starlight, in which Marines claimed to have killed 700 Communist soldiers, leading General William Westmoreland to boast that the Marines "could meet and defeat any force they might encounter." But despite repeated...
...Viet Nam faces an unusually brutal enemy who uses terror deliberately (see box, page 29). But that certainly is no excuse for American behavior at My Lai. It is also small comfort to the U.S. that other Western nations have been guilty of wartime atrocities. The French executed some 15,000 Moslems in the long Algerian war of the 1950s. At Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle fire. The Germans bombed and machine-gunned...
...Spengler was named captain of next year's team and Keith Colburn won the French Award at Tuesday night's cross-country banquet at the Faculty Club...
...presenting the J. D. French Memorial Award. Ed Meehan '64 said that Colburn, this year's captain. "typified the McCurdy type of runner" because of his dogged determination. He noted that Colburn was known for his track ability and worked hard to become good in cross country...