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Perhaps the most influential discussion of the war crimes issue was undertaken by legal scholars who specialized in international law and the law of war. Richard A. Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law and the law of war. Richard A. Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, began to argue that the U.S. war effort in Vietnam was illegal soon after American troops entered combat in Indochina in large numbers. As the war dragged on through the sixties. Falk became increasingly active in the antiwar movement, and came to argue that the standards of justice applied...
Telford Taylor, a professor of International Law at Columbia and a one-time chief prosecutor at Nurenberg, came to share Falk's conclusion that the U.S. was committing crimes of war in Vietnam, though he had started from an entirely different perspective. Taylor had begun as a proponent of the U.S. war effort against North Vietnam, which page 4/Dump Truck in part accounts for the impact of his book Nurenberg and Vietnam. Published in 1971, this book used a conservative and restricted interpretation of international law, and in it Taylor came to the painful conclusion that his government...
...part, Falk said last week that the need for a war crimes proceeding "is present, perhaps greater than when the war was going on, since the American involvement in the war is so easily repressed." He says that "if one takes the principle of individual responsibility seriously, then there should be some sort of war crimes trial"--but, with the same ambivalence he felt in 1969, he quickly adds, "It's quixotic to suggest that trials actually take place in this climate...
...Peter Folk, has joined ranks with Bonanza and I Love Lucy reruns as one of America's top TV exports. Now shown in 75 countries, the series has just been voted Japan's most popular television show in a poll conducted by the Japanese TV Guide. Falk's international success has not come smoothly, however. When Rumania's state TV network ran out of shows, fans of the raincoated detective began to protest, and the beleaguered network cabled Universal Studios for temporary relief. Said Falk in Hollywood last week: "The Rumanian government got me to tape...
...When he is not playing the show's martini-mixing Army surgeon, Trapper John, Doc Rogers carries on with a different operation. As head of W.M. Rogers, Inc.-Managed Investments, he takes care of the financial affairs of half a dozen clients (among them Actors Peter Falk and James Caan) and deals with such financiers as Lyons and Los Angeles Industrialist Lawrence Weinberg. Insiders estimate that Rogers' company is worth several million dollars. His holdings-with Falk and others-include apartment buildings, office blocks and a 500-acre California vineyard-the largest planting of merlot grapes...