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...reaction. Marcos, who as a guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese, and has devised his own pacification program, a mailed-fist and velvet-glove approach...
...shrapnel-pocked ex-Marine with a face "like a clenched fist," Bauer looks even meaner than he is-and there are signs that he may be mellowing. Nobody on the squad has been fined all year. Curfews are lenient, and bed checks are rare. The Orioles obviously are enjoying their new freedom. Outfielder Powell, who batted only .248 last year, was up to .299 last week. Curt Blefary has twelve homers, and Centerfielder Russ Snyder is batting .337. Rightfielder Robinson ranks No. 1 in the American League in homers (22) and runs scored (68), fourth in batting (.312). Third Baseman...
...identified by Hanoi as Captain Murphy Neal Jones, 28, from Louisiana, and described as wounded in the hand and face. By way of celebrating his survival, his captors paraded Jones at night in a truck through the streets of Hanoi, under the glare of spotlights and the threats of fist-shaking mobs...
...accents of self-hatred. Bill Maitland says, "I myself am more packed with spite and twitching with revenge than anyone I know of. I actually often, frequently, daily want to see people die for their errors. I wish to kill them myself, to throw the switch with my own fist." There is little that Osborne does not abominate. With passion, grief, and hysteria, he records the unease of all the 20th century's displaced...
Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops...