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Genovese reappeared as an interpreter in the offices of the Allied Military Command in Italy. He soon became the head of a huge smuggling ring dealing in goods stolen from the U.S. Army. The Army arrested Geno vese in 1944, and he was forcibly returned to the U.S. By then the witnesses to the outstanding murder charge against him had disappeared and he was able to assume control of the Luciano crime family. In 1959 he was sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics charge and died in prison a decade later...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...
...officials, he insists, were well aware of a debate between the CIA and military analysts over whether the enemy's "irregular self-defense" supporters should be included in the figures. The defeats suffered by North Viet Nam during the Tet offensive of early 1968, Westmoreland claims, vindicate his command's method of reporting enemy strength. In an internal investigation six months later, conducted after TV Guide had published a cover story on the show titled "Anatomy of a Smear," a CBS official concluded that the word "conspiracy" was not justified and that certain of the network...
Lawrence's reputation is now so hallowed, his volatile life so mythologized, that anything he wrote is bound to command reverence or, at the very least, curiosity. Even those who dislike his work cannot, if they profess interest in 20th century tastes and ideas, afford to ignore...
...Brown commanded the forward play," he added, "not in the sense of overpowering command but in technical command, winning the ball 70 to 80 percent of the time...