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...Prior to November, anyone who advocated bombing North Viet Nam was labeled "impulsive," "trigger-happy," "living in the 18th century," or "warmonger"; now it's called statesmanship...
Died. Joseph Robert Rupley, 24, California Peace Corpsman stationed in Venezuela since last September; of a bullet wound inflicted when trigger-happy Caracas plainclothes policemen mistook him and three fellow corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
...idea holds some promise, except that Director Sinatra and his scriptwriters goof away tension at every turn. A truce seems inevitable, since both camps are rent by internal strife and riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra...
...three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes and trigger-itchy cops in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Walking alone between the combatants, he roared: "My name is John Doar, D-O-A-R! I'm from the Justice Department, and anybody around here knows I stand for what is right." The mob slowly cooled, the cops relaxed and tragedy...
...opposed to "mixed manning"; he only objects to "any proposals which recommend dropping the fundamental American veto" over the firing of nuclear weapons. Wilson's insistence on such a U.S. veto was meant to calm British fears that West Germany might get its finger on the nuclear trigger through MLF. Johnson assured him that the U.S. will retain its veto in any event...