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Thank you for a thorough and judicious account of the "Verdict on the Massacre" [Feb. 21]. The distinction between direct and indirect responsibility is sound, though it is still questionable whether the top Israeli command was not more directly, though only partly, responsible for the calamity. Nevertheless, it is even more imperative for the Lebanese government to bring to justice those Phalangists who perpetrated the mass murders in the camps. Unless this is done, and done soon, the conscience of humanity will forever decry the horrendous miscarriage of justice...
...dogfights with MiGs. Only in the last decade has the Air Force produced a good close-support plane, the A10, which can fly slowly enough to find enemy tanks, is sturdy enough to take hits, and is capably armed with a simple and effective 30-mm cannon. Tactical Air Command pilots ridicule the A10, joking that they fear being hit from the rear by birds. In recent years, the Air Force has tried to delete the plane from its budget...
...Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole lot worse." By some accounts, Garcia may be ousted relatively soon by El Salvador's Provisional President, Alvaro Alfredo Magaña. Among other changes that may be necessary are a further...
Because Volcker could obviously command a big job and big money at a private financial institution, rumors inevitably crop up that he will leave Washington. One now circulating among Chase Manhattan executives has Volcker as a strong candidate to become chairman of the bank, which has suffered a string of financial reversals since Willard Butcher succeeded David Rockefeller...
...first season's eight regular cast members eventually left the show, and with each replacement the circle of community became tighter. In his rubber-limbed way, Stevenson's Colonel Blake had been as much a MASH misfit as Frank Burns: a suburban doctor reluctant to command, with a fisherman's wily patience and a heart of puppy chow. When Stevenson departed after the third season (his character was reported killed in an airplane crash in the Sea of Japan), Harry Morgan as Colonel Sherman Potter took over. A cavalryman in the first World War who turned medic...