Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt 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 Article-I.D.: dciem.1603 Posted: Wed Jun 26 17:27:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 23:19:11 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> <518@hou2g.UUCP> <1072@ihuxb.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 Summary: >-> 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 {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt