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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame
Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847
Message-ID: <1603@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 17:27:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 17:27:05 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>->   Actually, the Adolph Hitler principle states that you should kill
>->ten of "their" people for each one of "ours".  It didn't work for him
>->(and believe me he did enough experimentation to find out), but maybe
>->we can improve on his mistakes.
>->
>->H. Reza Taheri
>->
>
>Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier
>and that's how we got the word "decimate".
>
>
>    Dave Peak
From the OED:
	Decimate (3) *Military*  To select by lot and put to death one in
every ten of (a body of soldiers guitly of mutiny): a practice in ancient
Roman times, sometimes followed in later times.

Not *quite* the same thing.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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