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Saturday morning the atmosphere was one of bustling paperwork as office workers cranked out copies of campaign proposals to be voted on that evening. In the basement of the conference headquarters, preparations were being made for a transatlantic telephone call to Madame Binh in Paris that afternoon. (Heavy press coverage was anticipated.) Behind the stage hung a ten-foot-square poster of flag-draped coffins and huge lettering: "Is this what you'd call phased withdrawal?" Someone had tacked up three posters beside it depicting the imprisonment of Reverend Charles Koen of race-hating Cairon, Illinois, leader of the Black...
...composed of his peers. Usually the panel is dominated by officers who are older and more at home in the service than he. When enlisted men are selected, they are often crew-cut senior noncoms with little sympathy for youngsters who challenge military custom. At the Long Binh logistics base in South Viet Nam, however, a civilian lawyer and a veteran Army colonel recently collaborated to produce the most unusual jury in military memory...
...hearing, Joseph Remcho, 27, a member of the Lawyers' Military Defense Committee that has been defending G.I.s, asked that the jury be selected at rani dom. Remcho had lost on the same moi tion in a dozen previous cases. This time, however, Colonel Arthur Corley, commander of Long Binh, consented. Explained the career officer: "The mil-j itary justice system is under attack, par- i ticularly by those who consider themselves more liberal than the establishment . . . We decided to give it a try to show that we are not so tight...
...Binh is as fond and as compassionate a film as I can imagine coming out of the Vietnam War. It locates the tragedy where it belongs--among the Vietnamese. It is a good movie about...
...think: what if it had been made ten years ago? Or: what if Nixon had seen Hoa Binh twice instead of Patton...