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...distinction between Congress' power to declare war and the President's ability to wage war on his own has been a historic source of controversy. By one count, U.S. Presidents ordered undeclared acts of war 149 times up to World War II. The list begins with the hostilities between France and the U.S. in 1798: as another example, Thomas Jefferson informed Congress months after he had ordered a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean in 1801 to protect U.S. shipping from the Barbary states...
Whose orders? At week's end there was still no answer. Canterbury insisted that "no one gave an order." That statement strains credibility. By Canterbury's own count, 16 or 17 men fired 35 rounds. They started at virtually the same moment and stopped at the same moment. Many civilian spectators at the scene and some officials seeking to reconstruct the event are convinced that an order was given. And someone made the initial mistake of ordering live ammunition distributed to all the men and permitting them to load their rifles-a procedure that is contrary to regular...
...soft-spoken Miss Alpert. Had they gone to trial, she could have received 65 years in jail. Melville faced up to 390 years, and Hughey 25 years. Under the bargain made with the prosecution, most of the charges concerning the actual planting of bombs contained in the 19-count indictment were dismissed. Melville-who also admitted one bombing-can now get a maximum...
...fighting. Last week, however, Israel was concerned with smaller-scale attacks by Arab commandos. On the Jordan frontier, an Israeli unit on night patrol spotted three Fatah scouts. Taking cover, the Israelis held their fire until the Fatah main force arrived to join the scouts. A body count produced 21 claimed dead-the largest number of commandos ever killed in one fight on Israeli territory. Three other major Arab thrusts came from southern Lebanon. Rockets killed a father and daughter in the east Galilee town of Kiryat Shemona; three Israeli soldiers died in an ambush on the foothills of Mount...
Oilmen are fast discovering that pollution cannot be dismissed as the price of progress. In the toughest federal action ever brought against a polluter, a grand jury in New Orleans last week indicted the Chevron Oil Co. on a 900-count criminal charge of having "knowingly and wilfully" failed to provide safety devices on 90 wells in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coastline...