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...each day they are in court. In most counties they sit for no more than 90 days a year. In Washington County, which includes the state capital of Montpelier, side judges are paid an additional $175 a month for administrative work. That barely covers expenses for Assistant Judge Willis Bragg, a retired dairy farmer, who travels 25 miles each way every day from his home in Waitsfield. Bragg does it because he believes that ordinary people should have a voice in government. Says Bragg: "We are advocates for the citizens...
Vermonters are not likely to let anyone take Willis Bragg's job away. Says New York University Law Professor Linda Silberman, co-director of the 1979 study of lay judges: "The notion of abolishing the system in Vermont is like tearing down the American flag. It is a unique system, and it is going to remain." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Richard Hornik/Montpelier
...handsome, ambitious, athletic. After breezing through Princeton, medical school and a surgical residency, he joined the Green Berets at the age of 25. He hoped to ship out to Viet Nam, but never got there. At about 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, in the MacDonalds" apartment at Fort Bragg, N.C., his wife Colette, 26, pregnant with their third child, was killed; she was stabbed 37 times in the chest and neck. The MacDonald daughters, Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2 were murdered so savagely that the Army crime photographer became ill. MacDonald, who was superficially wounded, mumbled of an attack...
Also disconcerting to the U.S. was the weak performance of Salvadoran infantrymen who had just returned from 14 weeks of training by U.S. 82nd Airborne Division instructors at Fort Bragg, N.C. Many of those troops were pinned down by the rebels in Morazan until the Dragonfly jets forced the guerrillas to abandon their positions. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have been trying to persuade army troops to move in five-man patrols as they comb the countryside. Instead, the Salvadorans travel in vulnerable column formations along main roads. Says a frustrated U.S. aide in San Salvador...
...case has been anything but fast. In fact, the Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with...