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EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, A VENEZUELAN STATE radio-TV channel broadcast a tape of Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias declaring that President Carlos Andres Perez had been deposed by a coup. Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels...
...Court in Arizona last week to salvage his 11-year career, which ended in October after he, like Meinhold, acknowledged his homosexuality on national television. Former Naval Academy student Joseph Steffan is suing to reverse his ouster just weeks before his scheduled graduation in 1987. Former Army National Guard Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a Vietnam veteran who served 26 years until she was identified as a lesbian, is suing to get her job back...
Among the first to be verified was F-4D fighter-bomber pilot Lieut. Colonel Joseph Morrison, shot down on Nov. 25, 1968. He died after he parachuted safely to the ground. But the F-4D is a two-seat aircraft, and Pentagon analysts noted one photo of Morrison's personal effects showed an extra pistol; this led them to confirm the death of his back-seater San D. Francisco. Intelligence analysts now expect that the Hanoi museum material already in hand may clear up 23 of the 135 so-called discrepancy cases, where the U.S. knows an individual survived...
Although the decision was reached in the Federal Court Trial Division, the lowest level of Canada's highest courts, it will not be appealed, said Colonel R.A. McDonald, a member of the office of the Judge-Advocate General in Canada...
This tautly written volume is The Caine Mutiny of the Vietnam War. Like Herman Wouk's wonderfully elusive Captain Queeg, the Green Beret conspirators, beginning with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...