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...render a verdict. A majority said they had been leaning toward CBS, but some thought each side had presented a substantial case. Said Judge Pierre Leval, who had warned at the outset that the suit could easily turn into a futile effort to re-evaluate the war in Viet Nam: "Judgments of history are too subtle and too complex to be satisfied with a verdict. It may be for the best that the verdict will be left to history...
Peacock, 43, a Viet Nam veteran, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve and an Assistant Secretary of the Army from 1980 to 1981, had "flown with many a test pilot," and was able to give a vivid, technical account of what happened next. "By the time I returned to my seat, the horizontal force was at least five Gs (five times that of gravity), making it impossible for me to fasten my seat belt . . . Then it eased up a bit to maybe one or two Gs. But the plane was continuing downward. Clearly the pilot was trying to pull...
...were being summarily dismissed--that is, rejected before going to trial. For journalists, the most nettlesome result of the court's shift in mood came in a ruling during the pretrial discovery phase of a suit brought by retired Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert, a former field officer in Viet Nam, against the producers of a report about him on the CBS News show 60 Minutes. The Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that Herbert was entitled to rummage through the journalists' research notes, paper work and the unused outtakes of raw film footage from which they assembled the broadcast...
...days after the big push kicked off, the Vietnamese had achieved their objectives, driving the Khmer Rouge from their most important base area; Western diplomats in Bangkok called it Viet Nam's greatest victory in its six- year-old war in Kampuchea. More than 40,000 civilians normally under Khmer Rouge control spilled into Thailand, some 25 miles south of the camps holding 60,000 refugees who had fled earlier in the assault when the Vietnamese rolled over non-Communist resistance units. Khmer Rouge guerrillas who had fought around Phnom Malai began to filter in the opposite direction, deeper into...
...gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea until Viet Nam's 1978 invasion and the installation of a puppet regime in Phnom Penh, the capital...