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...Armed Forces are leaving Viet Nam the same way that they came in eleven years ago-quietly. There has been virtually no pomp or ceremony. Though the 4,000 remaining Army troops will not be completely gone until the end of March, the U.S. Army command in Viet Nam officially folded its colors last week in what may be the most phlegmatic farewell to arms ever. If the event seemed a little premature, it was because, as one Army colonel put it, "It would've looked sort of funny to have six people lined up on a parade ground...
Gray defended this practice on the grounds that he was just "part of the chain of command" that leads to the White House. That is an appallingly limited vision of the role of the FBI, which under Hoover had proudly maintained its independence from eight Presidents and served as a nonpartisan investigative agency to aid evenhanded justice. Indeed, the Gray nomination has led some liberals to yearn almost nostalgically for the days of Hoover, despite all their previous complaints about the cantankerous FBI chief...
...Justice Department officials issued an ultimatum to the Indians to abandon the trading post at Wounded Knee by 6 p.m. on Thursday, the suspense grew. In the rolling hills surrounding the Indian enclave, U.S. Army armored personnel carriers rumbled in preparation for an assault. At the roadblocks and in command posts, several of the FBI agents and marshals-there were 300 in all-restlessly broke down their M-16 rifles and adjusted the straps on their gas masks. At one point, two U.S. Air Force Phantoms streaked low overhead, reportedly on "reconnaissance" missions...
...they were at the time of the bloody anti-American riots of 1964. Torrijos is demanding a treaty that grants full and immediate jurisdiction over the Canal Zone; the U.S. proposes to grant partial or gradual jurisdiction over a period of 35 years. Panama wants the U.S. Southern Command (eleven bases, 12,000 troops) dismantled, claiming that the U.S. has no treaty right to station armed forces in the Canal Zone in peacetime. Actually, the original 1903 treaty provides for U.S. defense of the Canal in both peace and wartime; Washington has proposed a joint defense agreement...
Last summer in Watts, the Stax records organization sponsored a free concert for 100,000 black citizens, who came to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a day of soul and solidarity. The performers were under contract to Stax, so their appearances were in the nature of command performances. They all showed substantial enthusiasm, however, and judging from this film, the crowd responded with easy joy-and with pride in being there and being black...