Word: killingly
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...rivalry between Barnes and Elias begins to suppurate sensationally. Elias, a night-world Natty Bumppo, believes only in his skills and his men; he is both in Viet Nam and above it. Barnes can act as impromptu medic to save a soldier's life or, with equal vigor, kill a village woman in front of her husband. In him the grunts find everything worth admiring and hating about war. And even a man determined to kill the sergeant must wait for his approval before blasting him to perdition...
...children are vulnerable. "Sometimes it terrifies me to think what the soldiers might do to them," she says. Wendy claims that the military has taken photos of the house where they live, and that on one occasion a government soldier interrupted an N.P.A. radio communication to announce: "If you kill our colleagues, we'll kill your children." Executive Secretary Ermita says the accusation that the military would threaten or target children "is pure N.P.A. propaganda. If that really happened, the commanding officer would have known and we would have known. The soldier would have been punished...
...doesn't help that there's a seething rivalry between the two main leaders-Zia, 61, the widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman, and Hasina, 59, daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also murdered. Hasina believes Zia's husband knew of the plot to kill her father. Six years ago, on a visit to Dhaka, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to get the two to shake hands, but neither could bring herself even to look at the other. At a service for Armed Forces Day two months ago, the two women...
...especially the ones who were the shooters, were much more wary and difficult to get hold of because they're afraid of being caught by the police and being "encountered," as the Indian slang has it. The newspapers will report the next day that so-and-so gangster was killed in an encounter with the police. What that actually means is that they caught the guy, and they'd question him, and they would kill him, and they'd put a gun in his hand and say it was a shootout. So in India, at least, the word encounter...
...always nobler than the present. The Greeks were indeed cultured and eloquent. They were also the most frightful pederasts, but you don't hear much of that from their conservative admirers today, nor that stoic, law-giving Romans spent 200 years figuring out really, really bad ways to kill Christians...