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North Viet Nam-a signatory of the 1949 convention-chimed in with its own flouting of the military code: henceforth, howled Hanoi, U.S. pilots downed over North Viet Nam would be regarded as "war criminals liable to go before tribunals," Nuremberg-style. The Saigon government, whose crackdown of Viet Cong terrorists was the nominal trigger of the Red reprisals, responded to the cruel dilemma. Last week, five criminals convicted of murder and rape were publicly executed in a downtown square. The life of a Viet Cong agitator was spared...
...part in a statewide crackdown aimed at Indiana's mounting traffic problem, Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Edward F. New Jr. decreed last month that speeders and other "moving violators" in his jurisdiction will no longer get off with mere fines paid to a local justice of the peace...
Editor Neal, a 1945 West Point graduate who later resigned his commission to run the family newspaper, says that he is all for a traffic crackdown, but he insists that New's method will simply clog the court with jury trials, while cops who must testify on their days off will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize...
...Crackdown on Corruption. Union papers now try to appeal to the whole family by running "ladies' sections." They carry regular columns on cooking, dressmaking, hobbies, social security and travel; the papers of affluent unions run notices for charter flights abroad. As for consumer advice, few commercial papers carry shrewder columnists than Sidney Margolius, whose syndicated pieces tell union members how to spend their union wages. "My wife reads the paper from cover to cover," says a Manhattan machinist. "She's more of a regular reader than...
When it is a complex "even" like the crackdown on the Buddhist pagodas the reporter's job gets even more difficult. The problem is not only the physical one of finding out the raw facts or the intellectual one of understanding what they mean. A journalist must decide whether publishing will endanger his informant, whether it will dry up other sources, whether the chance of being overshadowed by other stories will make the risk too high. And have to be done with minimal sleep, under marital law, and facing a deadline...