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...part of the other, as the President pinned a Purple Heart on the left collar of his pajamas. "There's no problem at all. I'm ready to go back." The 1st Infantry Division's Pfc. Antonio Dell' Osso, 23, who had been torn apart by a land mine, was just as positive. "Sir," he said with tears in his eyes, "I'd do it again...
There is one small corner of war-torn South Viet Nam that has managed to maintain a separate peace. Cholon, the teeming Chinese quarter of Saigon, survives behind a Great Wall of indifference to the war-an indifference tempered only by the dictates of business. For it is from the bulging godowns of Cholon that Viet Nam's 1,200,000 "overseas" Chinese dominate almost 90% of the nation's economy. Lately, to Chinese chagrin, that precarious dominance has been threatened. After all, the Chinese of Cholon have been a target for Communist persuasion for the past...
...evil and the Viet Cong always good. Although the quotation from Johnson in the first question: "I would like to see American students develop as much fanaticism about the U.S. political system as young Nazis did about their system during the war," is probably accurate, it has been so torn out of context that it means nothing except that the President used an unfortunate phrase. An isolated phrase, however, in no way proves that these are his beliefs, and I think there is a good deal of evidence that Johnson is not an advocate of Fascism. It also seems incredible...
...first sign of trouble in the Watts area of Los Angeles last summer, the L.A. Times swung into action. It took some 50 reporters and photographers off other jobs and poured them into the riot-torn streets. To get as much of the inside story as possible, the paper turned a Negro advertising salesman into a reporter who provided a graphic eyewitness account. Times-men in other parts of the U.S. and abroad were alerted to file stories on the reaction to the turmoil. A Times reporter in Athens interviewed vacationing California Governor Pat Brown. Once Watts calmed down, Timesmen...
...publishing his lecture in the forthcoming Michigan Law Review. He was not prescribing perjury, he says, he was merely discussing conflicts in the U.S. adversary system. In theory, that system produces truth and justice by pitting lawyers in a contest before neutral judges and juries. The defense lawyer is torn between his role as a truth-seeking officer of the court and his duty to fight as hard as possible for his client...