Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minutes segment challenging the claim by Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert (ret.) that he had been relieved of his command for reporting U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam to his superiors. Herbert sued Producer Barry Lando, Correspondent Mike Wallace, CBS and the Atlantic Monthly (which published Lando's account of his investigation of Herbert) for a total of $44.7 million, claiming that he was made to look like a liar. During more than a year of exhaustive pretrial discovery, Lando sat through 26 sessions that produced 2,903 pages of transcript. He answered questions about what he knew...
...mark of his integrity that he waited so long to present Watergate from the other side of the bench. Perhaps he waited too long. After all the President's men have told their tales, there would seem to be few revelations left. Yet, in this appealing account, Sirica does set the record straight, not only about the judicial words but also about the sentences...
...covert operations, however, can be as dangerous as too many. Such actions used to consume about half the agency budget; today they account for a mere 2%. Certainly one of the worst setbacks the U.S. has suffered in recent months was the fall of the Shah, including the loss of CIA electronic listening posts in Iran; this equipment was extremely valuable for verification of Soviet weaponry, a key issue in the SALT debate. Though some observers argue that nothing could have been done to save the Shah or promote an acceptable successor regime, nothing was really tried. CIA activities...
Eliot's biography captures the tragedy of Ochs' life as well as anything written about him yet. It does what biographies are supposed to do; it provides a detailed account of Ochs' life from beginning to end. Through Phil Ochs' life Eliot tries to capture the essence of the '60s. However, it becomes the story not of the death of an era, but of its still-birth...
THOUGH clearly one of Ochs' greatest admirers. Eliot doesn't avoid the painful facts of Ochs' last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach...