Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...used to be that General Vo Nguyen Giap's guerrilla manual was the main source of the U.S. military's woes in Viet Nam. Now the brass is worrying about the U.S. Army Regulations as well. With the help of U.S. civilian lawyers, a few G.I.s in Viet Nam have seized on a little-known passage in the "Army regs" section on conscientious objectors and tried to use it as a legal way out of combat...
...demonstrated congressional intent to help President Johnson pursue it. But after sifting a number of cases, including the events and trials relating to Song My, Taylor concludes, that the U.S. seems to be committing war crimes that violate legal precedents established by the Geneva Conventions and the 1956 Army Manual. Taylor's concern is mainly My Lai-like incidents, the killing of prisoners and destruction of villages suspected of harboring Viet Cong...
...Referral manual thicker now. Additional resources. New staff members, students from Harvard Divinity School and Episcopal Theological School doing field work. Research and education people, writing on the street scene, why people are there, drug counseling, working on conferences at secondary schools...
...story was written in New York by Timothy James, with contributions on the U.S. scene from Ed Magnuson, and edited by Ronald Kriss. The accompanying box on Carlos Marighella's guerrilla manual was written by Katie Kelly. Sara Medina, Marion Knox and Genevieve Wilson provided research...
Such ideas were hardly original. During his Sierra Maestra days, Che carried in his knapsack the Spanish edition of an obscure two-volume Soviet manual called The Clandestine Regional Committee in Action. Written by Aleksei Fyodorov, a World War II Russian guerrilla leader, the book spells out methods for establishing sources of supply as well as discussing such everyday guerrilla problems as how to handle a hard-drinking subordinate, how to check out a supply runner suspected of double-dealing, and how to use propaganda. "You see?" Che would say of Fyodorov's ideas. "It's all come...