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President Bok declines an invitation to a party thrown by President Nixon. Bok, in Washington to meet with other Ivy League presidents and to lobby against the Vietnam War, says, "My wife and I both felt uncomfortable given the President's decision on the bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of the harbors...
...after her on the counts of lying to investigators about her affair with Zigo, disobeying a direct order to stop seeing him, and conduct unbecoming an officer--charges the Air Force believed were rock solid. That morning a defiant Air Force Chief of Staff, General Ronald R. Fogleman, had thrown down the gauntlet before a Senate committee in a statement that Spinner claimed poisoned any chance of a fair military trial. "This is not an issue of adultery," Fogleman said. "This is an issue about an officer, entrusted to fly nuclear weapons, who lied. That's what this is about...
Chicken king DON TYSON, long one of independent counsel DONALD SMALTZ's prime targets in the investigation of former Agriculture Secretary MIKE ESPY, has been thrown a bone. Summoned before a grand jury last week, Tyson, the retired chairman of Tyson Foods, was planning to take the Fifth when he was corralled in the hallway and offered immunity by Smaltz's team. It's a deal, replied the astonished Tyson. For two days he testified about his few contacts with Espy and the small favors, like tickets to a Dallas Cowboys playoff game, he provided for him. Smaltz...
ANNETTE SORENSEN Danish mother is thrown in jail for leaving baby on New York sidewalk. No wonder crime is down...
...sense a fault line in American history--the way in which America's eager anticipation of the future might turn into a more doubt-ridden view of progress, after the fratricidal horrors of the Civil War. To Henry Adams, writing in the early 1900s, the assassination seemed to have thrown Americans into a state of mind without connection to the past; it was a secular analogy to the death...