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Some news events command immediate attention. Others require months or even years to take shape. The changing application of the Constitution's due-process clause is such an evolving story, and this week's Law section examines the trend in depth. The story was written by Contributing Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who has been our principal Law writer since 1968. "One of the Law section's goals," says Ferrer, "is to show how people's day-to-day lives may be affected by even subtle changes in legal practice. In the case of due process...
...Viet Cong prisoners over a four-day period. In both North and South, the U.S. captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object...
...Syria over the status of the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, at a meeting of the Arab League Defense Council. As long as the fedayeen are kept in check, Hussein would agree to the re-establishment of the Eastern Front, a largely meaningless unification of Arab armies under Egyptian command on Israel's border with Jordan. The King also got Syria and Egypt to agree that neither would undercut him if he suggested in Washington that the Arabs might finally recognize Israel in return for their occupied territories...
...Several million TV viewers watched CBS's 60 Minutes cast doubt on Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert's charge that the Army had stripped him of his command in Viet Nam because he reported U.S. atrocities to his superior officers (TIME, Feb. 12). But precious few newspaper readers saw any mention of the CBS investigative coup the next day. Neither the Associated Press nor United Press International carried the story-a strange omission, considering the wide coverage given to Herbert's antimilitary statements. The A.P. says that the story did not justify the space a full background explanation...
Died. Yaakov Dori, 73, leader of the Israeli army that fought for independence in 1948; after a stroke; in Haifa. A refugee from the pogroms of Russia, Dori immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1905, later joined the Jewish Legion serving under British army command in World War I. Discharged in 1921 for fighting Arabs without British approval, he joined the Haganah, an underground Zionist force, and by 1939 had become its commanding officer. When independence was proclaimed in 1948, the Haganah became Israel's official defense force and Dori its first chief of staff...