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NEWS OF THE SLAUGHTER of civilians at My Lai 4 hamlet in March 1968 outraged the world, and the Nixon administration's attempt to conceal the report of the Peers commission which investigated the deaths deserves similar condemnation...
...over Viet Nam and back. A short time later, Captain Larry Underwood, 27, the electronics warfare officer, detected the first traces of enemy radar bouncing off 6623. Seated at a console behind the flight deck, Underwood began employing a number of top-secret jamming devices to conceal 6623 within its own protective bubble of electronic countermeasures. As the B-52 came within range of surface-to-air missiles, Underwood employed other devices that blocked the missile radar from locking on to the big plane. Meanwhile Captain Petersen started to put the plane through turns to make 6623 a more elusive...
...economy on Western banking giants. Despite the heavy foreign investment, unemployment persists. Every year over 90,000 Greek workers seek jobs abroad. Since 1967 population growth has been negative. All this has been accompanied by steeply rising inflation in everyday goods, a fact that the junta has tried to conceal by juggling with the numbers. On the whole, salaries and wages have been frozen, while the right of workers to strike has been abolished. The country is on its way to a "modernization" that will polarize the economy and cause such damage to the social fabric that it will...
RUSSIA AND THE WEST. Brezhnev, who has committed his own prestige to an improvement of relations with Western Europe, did not conceal his anger that West Germany has not yet ratified the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw (TIME, March 20). The treaties, which call for mutual renunciation of force in settling disputes, are central to Soviet hopes of confirming the political status quo on the Continent while keeping the Communist bloc tightly insulated from contacts with the West. Brezhnev threatened that the consequences of a failure by Bonn to approve the treaties would be extremely serious. Said he: "The Federal...
...cloak of academic freedom in which so many in the Harvard community seek to conceal their real feelings in the continuing debate as to whether Professor Richard Herrnstein's writings on "I.Q." are racist, was inadvertently pierced last week by Psychology Department chairman, Edwin Newman. According to the March 10 Crimson, Newman refused to give a definite answer as to whether he personally thinks blacks are inferior because "all the facts aren...