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General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS News is not scheduled to come to trial until fall, but both sides are already in full cry. Last week Westmoreland held his third press conference on the dispute to brandish a 5-Ib. packet of testimony, which he said debunks the network's January 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. CBS hit back at a news conference 20 minutes later, 100 yards away in the same Washington hotel, with its own 1¼lb. sheaf of affidavits. Neither side uncovered a "smoking gun," but each...
Nitze even had a military justification for giving up the Pershing II. It involved deploying instead a shorter-range version of the missile called the Pershing IB. That weapon would have had the accuracy, mobility and other high-tech advantages of the Pershing II and could hit Warsaw Pact airfields, rail transshipment points and command centers. But because of its shorter range it would not be limited by the agreement...
...1970s a similar protest arose over the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, which would have been built on the same site formerly known as Parcel ib. Because of community pressure the library site was moved to Columbia point in Boston...
...wary of the poisonous cap. However, experts say that Morchella esculenta or the five or six other varieties of the most sought after morels can be clearly identified by their pitted, spongy caps and attached hollow stems. Chilly weather this spring has driven morel prices to $12.50 per Ib...
Under the most trying circumstances, Child shows no sign of strain or temper. At 70, an unstooped 6 ft. 2 in., she strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been...