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...city. Forty persons were injured in a series of explosions that severely damaged the headquarters of the ruling Unionist party as well as a random selection of other targets: a clothing factory, an office building, a bacon plant. Along the border, a customs post was destroyed and a national guardsman was killed by gunfire from a speeding car. A 19-month-old girl was killed by a ricocheting bullet fired at an army patrol by a lone gunner...
...date was an open letter to his college-bound son by a Southern physician, Dr. Paul Williamson. Stick to studying and necking and avoid revolution, wrote the father, or "expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you." More than 300 letters poured in to the Times, most of them attacking the doctor. Not far behind in reader response was a polemic by Roman Catholic Militant L. Brent Bozell, who provoked an outburst by arguing that birth control and abortion reduced sex to mutual masturbation...
...most people," says Stephen Jones of Shennuck, R.I., "things do not flow, especially small bodies of water in their vicinity." The former Coast Guardsman, lobsterman and author of the bizarre novel Turpin believes that most people view such water as a static extension of their own property, "a background against which lawn furniture may repose." In Drifting, an antique-flavored narrative of his small-craft outings in Louisiana, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, Jones asserts his ancient riparian rights to re-establish spiritual and public relations with the basic element that flows and quenches...
Michener never explains why the Guardsmen fired their guns. He doubts that as a group they had been ordered to fire, but, he believes that "some kind of rough verbal agreement" was reached among the Guardsmen when they huddled just before retreating up the hill. So far, no Guardsman has revealed what was said at that huddle. "It is inconceivable," Michener concludes, "that the 76 men who were penned in on the field that day will be able to maintain their wall of silence indefinitely. In the years that lie ahead, someone will talk, and a flood of testimony will...
...cover story represents a collaboration between Associate Editor Keith Johnson, an Army veteran and former National Guardsman who has reported from Viet Nam, and Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, an ex-Navyman who has long been fascinated by the judiciary and who started TIME'S Law section seven years ago. Johnson concentrated on the verdict, its impact and its implications. Shnayerson dealt with the history and legal ramifications of war crimes...