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...Kudos to Dr. Rusk and TIME for exposing the napalm flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
...diplomacy involved is a bit delicate, since the U.S. State Department would prefer not to turn the defection into any more of an international flap than it already is. Indeed, at first it seemed that the U.S. had turned down Stalin's daughter Svetlana, 41, when she showed up at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Last week, while Svetlana remained in hiding in Switzerland, the State Department clarified its position somewhat by reporting that it had in fact issued her a visa to come to the U.S.; the question of whether she will eventually be granted asylum...
...wake of the N.S.A. flap, it was also disclosed last week that CIA has been pumping money into international labor organizations, which have set themselves the laudable task of bringing fair labor standards and union democracy to underdeveloped nations. Among the labor groups identified as agency dependents was the international division of the American Newspaper Guild. Oddly enough, press pundits could not seem to raise the same kind of uproar over CIA involvement in their own union as they did over its supposed subversion of youth...
...FLAP (running down): Extended care facilities . . . oligopoly . . . input . . . phasein . . . interlocking intervention . . . (He creaks, coughs and crawls into a filing cabinet...
...complete physical control" of the drill with which he had bored burr holes in patients' skulls. Whittaker maintained just as stoutly that Dr. Stevenson had always put the drill in place. After the holes were drilled, a fine wire saw was passed through them to cut out the flap of bone. Toward the end of an operation, the surgeon or his assistant took a needle and suture thread and sewed up the dura mater, the brain's tough encasing membrane. A nurse testified that in some cases Whittaker had placed these stitches, but he denied...