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MILESTONES Married. Candy Mossier, 51, the softspoken, blonde Georgia belle who, after her sensational 1966 trial on a charge of murdering her 69-year-old millionaire husband Jacques Mossier, was acquitted along with Nephew Melvin Lane Powers; and Barnett Garrison, 32, an electrical contractor; she for the third, he for the second time; in Houston...
Alpha 4, the other base turned over to ARVN last week, is only three miles from the southern edge of the DMZ. Better known as Con Thien-the name that was still lettered on its tactical operations center when the 300-man G.I. garrison pulled out last week-it is a small triangle of dusty hillocks that long ago earned a pivotal niche in the history of the war. In 1967, the North Vietnamese put such relentless pressure on Con Thien and inflicted so many casualties that the American public's confidence in its government's management...
Conspiracies are the specialty of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. And his reputation was firmly established during his two-year prosecution of Businessman Clay Shaw on a charge of conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Now U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell has charged Garrison with indulging in some conspiring of his own: accepting bribes to protect illegal pinball machines. After allegedly receiving the latest installment of $1,000 in marked $50 bills, Garrison was arrested, fingerprinted, and released on $5,000 bond. "I've never accepted a dollar in my life," he snapped...
...public relations loss, he is not nearly in Lyndon Johnson's dilemma of three years ago. Nixon is committed to a policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before...
...incarcerate I.R.A. ringleaders. In Britain, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling described the killing as a "coldblooded and an appalling crime." Though the British announced that they were withdrawing all soldiers under 18 years of age, Maudling told the House of Commons that the government is prepared to back its garrison in an effort to crush the I.R.A. gunmen once...