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This tautly written volume is The Caine Mutiny of the Vietnam War. Like Herman Wouk's wonderfully elusive Captain Queeg, the Green Beret conspirators, beginning with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...
...back them up, the U.S. stationed four warships carrying helicopters and 2,100 Marines off the coast of Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman said the force was there only to support the airlift of the Pakistani troops. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen insisted the U.S. "has no intention of landing a Marine expedition...
Americans are thinking more about their own problems as well. Says Herman Cohen, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: "What the Africans really have to worry about is not competition for our resources from the former Soviet Union but from Los Angeles and the Third World that lives...
...voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980 votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat. Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to win the general election this fall...
...sure enough, after my last final that spring, I sprinted from last final as fast as I could, giddier than Pee-Wee Herman at an all-day peep show...