Word: murderers
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Vietnamization, Protecting withdrawing American troops. The Nixon doctrine. The words mean ceaseless mass murder, brutal death from American rifles, helicopters, cannon, bombers. They mean total terror over the subcontinent of Indochina. They mean a permanent presence of an American military machine which holds the unchallenged right to strike anywhere at any time to ensure that the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Thais accept American rule...
...Peers board, who charged that it has "cut off the orderly progress of inquiry up the chain of command." Charges of covering up the massacre are still pending against Colonel Oran K. Henderson, a brigade commander who served under Koster, and Captain Dennis Johnson, an intelligence officer. Murder charges have been filed against Captain Ernest Medina, commander of Charlie Company, and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, an intelligence officer. No courts-martial have yet been scheduled for any of them...
...counsel then goes on to prohibit any Government payment of expenses; therefore, it would be wrong for the Army to provide mail, phone and transportation services free of charge. When Aronson noted that civilian lawyers for defendants in the My Lai massacre and the 1969 Green Beret double-agent murder cases were given extensive military cooperation in Viet Nam, the Army counsel brushed the comparison aside, stating that "special political considerations" were involved in those cases...
Died. Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, 57, far-leftist President of Guatemala, deposed in 1954 by a U.S.-sponsored exile invasion; by drowning after falling in his bathtub; in Mexico City. Known as "the Red Colonel," Arbenz was elected President in 1950 after the murder of his anti-Communist rival, Francisco Arana; once in office, Arbenz expropriated U.S. property, opened relations with Communist-bloc nations and generally established himself as a thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers...
...count is a vaudevillain complete with waxed mustache and leer. Tchaikovsky, fleeing from scandal, marries the nymphomaniacal Nina Ivanovna (Glenda Jackson). The outcome is nearly homicidal. (One night, wrote the tormented composer, "I was within a hairbreadth of succumbing to that blind, unreasoning, diseased loathing that ends in murder.") Tchaikovsky suffers a series of breakdowns. Nina ends her life in a sanitarium, hopelessly insane...