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...headline-filled years, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison has made it clear that his assassination-conspiracy case against Businessman Clay Shaw involves another, unnamed defendant: the Warren Commission. To prove his contention that Shaw and others had been part of a plot to shoot President Kennedy, Garrison needed to disprove the commission's findings that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted "alone and unassisted" on November 22, 1963. He also hinted often that elements of the Federal Government itself?particularly the CIA?were somehow involved in the assassination. Last week, as testimony in the case finally started, Garrison...
...summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti-Soviet dissent. Later, as Prague grew tenser by the minute, he underscored the warning. At week's end the 6,000-man Prague garrison was placed on alert, and military policemen patrolled the streets carrying submachine guns. Though student leaders promised not to march in the streets, many led pro-Dubček sit-ins and announced they would join workers in special "Dubček shifts" at factories...
When Dubček demurred that such a large Soviet garrison would leave little barracks space for the Czechoslovak army, Brezhnev replied: "We could use about 250,000 of your troops along the Chinese frontier." When Dubček tried to explain that his side had fulfilled the conditions of the first Moscow accord, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny ordered him to shut up. The Russians told the Czechoslovaks not to hope that outrage among the free world's Communist parties would deter the Kremlin from cracking down harder on Czechoslovakia. In the words of one Russian, "For the next...
...caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned to Kinshasa when he announced that Mulele was not covered by the amnesty and that he would be tried as a war criminal. A military court of three judges-their names were not revealed-convened at Camp Tshatshi, Kinshasa's paracommando garrison, and after 15 hours of deliberation sentenced Mulele to death before a firing squad. The government's official explanation of the trial: Mulele had planned a Communist revolt against Mobutu with the aid of Cuban-trained rebels...
...limited war like the one in Viet Nam, strange or archaic weapons sometimes do the most effective job. Within the 23-mile range of the New Jersey's guns are 60% of the North Vietnamese targets now hit by bombers, and the ship requires no garrison to protect its perimeter. The 25-year-old New Jersey was brought out of mothballs once before, for the limited war in Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China Sea. During World War II, it participated in strikes against the Japanese-held...