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...only has respect for the legal process been weakened and the critics of the military judicial system been given support for their claims of command influence, the image of Lieutenant Calley, a man convicted of the premeditated murder of at least 22 unarmed and unresisting people, as a national hero has been enhanced...
...would seem to me to be more appropriate for you as the President to have said something to remind the nation of the purpose of our legal system and the respect it should command...
...years ago, the U.S. had 740,000 troops on bases from Thailand to Japan; under the new withdrawals announced last week by President Nixon (see THE NATION), the total will fall below 420,000 by June 30. By year's end, moreover, the British Far East Command will have shrunk to a token presence of 4,000 men and a few ships based in Malaysia and Singapore, plus three or four Gurkha battalions elsewhere...
MANY RESEARCHERS believe that the best method of attacking cancer is to use the body's own genetic mechanism to order cancerous cells to stop growing. Transmitting such orders may be difficult. DNA programmed to carry the command would be digested almost immediately by the body's enzymes if it were injected into the bloodstream, thus making conventional methods of administering medication impractical. But RNA viruses, which produce DNA, have proven their ability to move directly into the cells and could easily carry such communications. Scientists speculate that benign viruses could be made in test tubes with proteins and synthesized...
...after the arduous trek to Aqaba and its swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish...