Word: mistreatment
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...with a small group the works of Mao Tse-tung. Several of the shorter essays have to be memorized, especially those that describe the communist soldier's duties--obey the Party, love the People. That means, he learns, return what you borrow, do favors for the peasants, don't mistreat their daughters...
...Williams, Tennessee-born George Hamilton gives mere lip service to his role. Alternately sulky or smiling, he drawls convincingly but never seems deeply touched by the megrims of the "hillbilly Shakespeare" whose reaction to fame is to mistreat his wife (Susan Oliver) and bedevil his loyal manager (Red Buttons). Meanwhile, life flits by with all the tired gimcrackery of a vintage M-G-M musical-stock shots of triumphant headlines, cheering crowds and bestselling sheet music. The only difference is that Hamilton, star of a group called the Drifting Cowboys, is signed up by Grand Ole Opry instead...
Newsweek reports that guerrillas terrorize only prominent officials and pro-government zealots. According to Newsweek, the Vietcong has a flat rule: no liberation soldier (i.e., guerrilla) may mistreat a peasant. Rape or stealing by a guerrilla is punishable by execution. Food must be paid for. Anything borrowed must be returned or replaced. Time magazine reported a Vietnamese peasant as saying, "The Vietcong come into your fields and work with you . . . the Vietcong live like us, look like us, share our homes. How can we inform on them...
Four days later, in a post-midnight TV address, Castro returned to the theme of the blunders of his own regime. "We have to increase public vigilance against errors and injustices," said Castro. "Some people think they are more revolutionary than anybody and have the right to mistreat and humiliate others." He singled out the notorious Revolutionary Defense Committees-spies stationed in every city block, in all factories and farms-for special censure. And then he made his attack categorical: "The revolution has to re-educate all the revolutionary nuclei, and needs to revise the entire political apparatus...
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