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This would not be a bad thing, were the hearings merely the squabble over Private Schine to which McCarthy has referred. But they are of far greater importance. Charges on both sides range from blackmail to flagrant misuse of authority. To these, the hearings have added the possible charge of perjury. And beneath these questions lie the broad issues of Congressional investigations and the Army's security program...
Gerard David Schine, 27, private, U.S. Army Military Police, was transferred last week from Camp Gordon, Ga. to Fort Myer, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, to be available for the great investigation, whose central question is: Did McCarthy threaten to blackmail the Army on Schine's behalf or did the Army threaten to use Schine as its blackmail weapon against McCarthy? When newsmen spotted Schine in the Senate Office Building last week, he ignored their questions, bounded up a staircase, three steps at a stride...
That did not fool the Mundt committee's Counsel Ray Jenkins for an instant. McCarthy had charged the Army with "blackmail," he snapped, and if Cohn did not want to write out the details, he, Jenkins, would. Cohn backtracked, agreed to supply the information...
...Both of these candidates have taken the view that our primaries may be used for personal vindication," wrote Mitchell last week. "We will exercise our right to withhold support.'' Roosevelt promptly protested that such a policy "would, if generally accepted, open the door to political blackmail ... I shall not campaign for vindication," he said. "I shall campaign on the issues and my qualifications for the office...
...detecting the neurotic symptoms which most commonly lead to suicide attempts-especially excessive daydreaming, sudden drops in grades, and social withdrawal from teachers and class mates. Dr. Hoff gave one final warning: teachers must not underestimate the seriousness of children who use suicide threats as a form of blackmail. "They do not do it for a joke," he said, "but because they are in need of something...