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Prior to the trial, the case was kept in the headlines by both sides' aggressive efforts at public relations. Much of the publicity favored Westmoreland. Once the suit reached court, Attorney Burt demonstrated that several key former officials who took Westmoreland's side either were not interviewed for the broadcast or, like President Johnson's National Security Adviser Walt Rostow, were left on the cutting-room floor. But Judge Leval counseled the jury that "fairness" was not an issue; Westmoreland had to prove both that the documentary was false and that CBS had good reason to know...
...think of Picasso goatishly chasing girls at 90. But despite such supposed proclivities, bald men are also said to look wise (think of Henry James or Oswald Spengler) and statesmanlike (John Glenn?). All well and good, but prejudices persist. Given a choice, Frank Sinatra decided on hair transplants, and Burt Reynolds acquired a toupee. When are we likely to elect our next bald President...
...courtroom studded with ten television monitors, Burt tried to build his case by contrasting the documentary as it was aired with CBS's outtakes, the portions of filmed interviews that were cut from the program. For example, in the documentary, Wallace asks Westmoreland, "Was President Johnson a difficult man to feed bad news about the war?" Westmoreland's answer strongly implies that the general had a motive for being less than frank with the President: "Well, Mike, you know as well as I do that people in senior positions love good news. Politicians or leaders in countries are inclined...
...past three months, a six-man, six-woman jury in a federal courtroom in Manhattan has been listening to witnesses for General William Westmoreland, former commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, tell a very different story. By painstakingly unraveling The Uncounted Enemy, Westmoreland's principal attorney, Dan Burt, is trying to convince the jury that the only public deception was by CBS, not by Westmoreland and the high command in Saigon. Last Tuesday, Westmoreland rested his case in his $120 million libel suit against the network. CBS Lawyer David Boies immediately began the arduous process of piecing the documentary...
...upbeat aftermath of last week's meeting, U.S. officials like Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt expressed the hope that the negotiators might be able to make progress in the offensive area while the defensive talks drag on inconclusively. No way, say the Soviets. The Geneva joint communique stressed that "all the questions" in the coming negotiations should be "considered and resolved in their interrelationship." Soviet diplomats say their side insisted on that cryptic phrase, and as they translate it, it means the U.S.S.R. will not agree to reductions in its offensive forces unless and until the U.S. accepts restrictions...