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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their files, plus the insights of many other TIME staffers with Viet Nam experience, produced the material for our cover and subsidiary articles. In Nation, Senior Editor Jason McManus assigned the main account of the tragedy to Ed Magnuson, while Peter Stoler and Keith Johnson wrote related stories. Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and Law Writer Howard Muson dealt with the legal dilemmas involved in bringing the men to trial, and Senior Editor John Elson wrote the Essay on the profound questions of good and evil raised by the tragedy. In addition, Press Writer Ted Bolwell discussed who first broke...
...detailed account came from Paul David Meadlo, 22, a member of Calley's platoon. As they walked toward the village, he told CBS, "there was one gook in a shelter, he was all huddled down in there?an older man. And Sergeant Mitchell hollered, 'Shoot him.' And so the man shot him." (Sergeant David Mitchell, 29, one of Galley's squadron leaders, has been charged with assault with intent to commit murder, but a court-martial has not yet been ordered.) Meadlo says his group ran through My Lai, herding men, women, children and babies into the center...
...account of the Republican Convention last year, Norman Mailer made a grudging observation: "A man who could produce daughters like that could not be all bad." David and Julie Eisenhower are still moving wholesomely in the background. But startlingly, Tricia, who once seemed shy and reticent, has emerged as a luminous blonde who turns up playing hostess at a White House Halloween party or holding hands at Manhattan's "21" with Eddie Cox, a young Eastern liberal lawyer who used to work for Ralph Nader's Raiders...
...courteously invited by the KGB to write a general account of the mood of the intelligentsia, and I equally courteously refused, upon which the matter ended. In 1963, I was taken by night to the Lubyanka prison and ordered to write a report against an American diplomat to the effect that he had subjected me, and other Soviet citizens, to malicious ideological brainwashing. I again refused, although they then threatened me with criminal proceedings. In 1965, I refused outright to talk with them, which cost me exile in Siberia. That is why I think I have the personal right...
...year, but for the past three years it has shot up by 8.9%. The U.S. outlay has jumped from an average annual rise of 7.7% to 12%. Last year the U.S. spent $79.6 billion for military purposes, followed by the Soviet Union with $39.8 billion. Together the two countries account for some 70% of the world's military spending...