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Seldom do we question the motives of the decorated men who, at the behest of Uncle Sam, participated in the Viet Nam War. Since soldiers are so often accorded the benefit of the doubt, why is the same courtesy so infrequently extended to war resisters? Why do so many of us look upon them with contempt and suspicion, denouncing them for their adamant refusal to obey edicts that countermand what should be the most binding of all edicts: the Sixth Commandment...
...Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
Apparently aware that Thais would not stand for that and reportedly at the behest of the King himself, NARC's 24-man junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their...
While Vorster and Kissinger were talking in Zurich, five African presidents met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the behest of President Julius Nyerere. The African leaders tried hard to bring about a reconciliation among the three principal Rhodesian liberation movements, which have long been feuding, but failed once again. In truth, the disunity among Rhodesian blacks is almost as big an impediment to majority rule as Ian Smith's intransigence. In the end the five presidents could only agree that the guerrilla war should be "intensified," but, on the other hand, they had no objection to a Kissinger...
...building is under construction, at least two miles from where the ambassador was last seen alive. One of the first at the scene was Jean D. Hoefliger, the International Red Cross delegate in Lebanon. Lifting the bloody blankets in which the bodies were wrapped, he recognized Meloy. At his behest the bodies were taken to a nearby Red Cross field hospital and covered with Red Cross flags while Hoefliger informed embassy officials of his discovery. "They were shocked into silence," he told TIME'S Dean Brelis...