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Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, meanwhile, went to Guam to interview B-52 crews who have been raiding North Viet Nam. Vietnamization may have relieved American infantrymen of the heaviest fighting, but the war is now as grueling and dangerous as ever for flyers, sailors-and newsmen...
Throughout the jury's marathon deliberation, the defense was never idle, firing off one motion for a mistrial after another. Obviously perplexed by the legal complexities of the charges, the jurors on two occasions asked Federal Judge R. Dixon Herman to please re-explain exactly what comprises a conspiracy. His explanation, the defense objected, was "contradictory, irrelevant to the issues, grossly confusing and repetitious." In one note breaking down the subdivisions under count 1, the all-important conspiracy charge, the jury asked: "Do we find some of the defendants guilty if we have evidence that they have conspired...
...made several of its motions for a mistrial (all denied) by posing the question of how long a jury can deliberate before free discussion becomes court "coercion" to arrive at a verdict. At one point, the defense called for a mistrial based in part on the fact that Judge Herman had "summarily denied" a request by married jurors for conjugal visits. That in turn led trial-goers to pass the time by envisioning such headlines as SEX-STARVED JURY CONVICTS CELIBATES, a gag based on the fact that six of the seven defendants are or were priests or nuns...
...step down early this summer, said that his government is responding to the Chinese-American rapprochement by attempting to achieve a new relationship of its own with China. "What really concerns me is that we have no means of making contact with Peking," he told Correspondents Jerrold Schecter, Herman Nickel and S. Chang. Sato eagerly questioned Schecter, who had just visited China, about his impressions, then spoke of the foreign policy dilemma facing his country...
...only after eggs had sold below the cost of production for three straight months, and only upon approval by two-thirds of the nation's producers in a referendum. Compliance would be enforced with fines of up to $5,000. Such drastic measures are warranted, argues Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge of Georgia, to avoid a rash of chicken-farm bankruptcies. "They have been selling eggs below the cost of production for two years," he says. "If that isn't need, I don't know what...