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Paul David Meadlo recalled the briefing his company received from Captain Medina the afternoon before the assault. Medina told the men, Meadlo testified, that all the My Lai villagers were "Viet Cong or Viet Cong sympathizers, and we were supposed to kill everything there -women, children, livestock." Three defense witnesses...
A PRESIDENT is likely to have something political up his sleeve when he takes the rare step of picking a man from the other party for his Cabinet. Dwight Eisenhower installed Martin Durkin, head of the plumbers' union, as Secretary of Labor in 1953 partly as a gesture to...
The big guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and...
The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses. But it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. When Richard Nixon dubbed them the "crazies" of the Arab world during a recent...
Set amid formal, terraced gardens, the villa resembles a rambling medieval manor house. But the routine within is briskly efficient. Pope Paul VI rises at 6:30 a.m., bathes, is shaved by his valet and says an early Mass. At breakfast (caffè latte, rolls, fruit), the conversation revolves around...