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Quite an Exercise. Both Pinheiro and Mafra admitted that the expedition took place. But they insisted that no actual kidnaping was intended. It was merely "an exercise," said Pinheiro lamely, to test the loyalty of officers to the constitution; Goulart personally had nothing to do with it. Lacerda's...
It also happened that the Hilsman cable was sent on a Saturday. A junior officer was manning the Viet Nam desk when the cable with the Harriman approval came in. The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman-who apparently did not realize the cable...
Last week, while in Nashville, Tenn., to report on that city's considerable advances in race relations, Trillin got word of new trouble in Birmingham, Ala., and hurried off to cover the story. First stop: the Birmingham city jail, to ask about the captive white and Negro "Freedom Riders...
He also cautioned against the "contagious seduction of the mass movements of our time. They invite you to unload the responsibilities of personal life upon society as a whole. If you are a fellow-traveler you can hand over the direction of your life to some higher-up." ...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former Lichfield commandant and the first higher-up arraigned, threw the court into uproar with contentious motions. He had appealed to President Truman for an inquiry into the trials. He called General Joseph T. McNarney, the Army's boss in Europe, to the stand. Higher-ups were going to be hard...