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...last U.S. general to be accused of war crimes was Brigadier General Jacob H. Smith in 1901. He was court-martialed for ordering a Philippine village turned into a "howling wilderness" and "all persons over the age of ten" slaughtered. He was convicted and later admonished and ordered to retire by President Theodore Roosevelt...
...apply to Viet Nam but thereafter: permitting the President to send troops into battle without a declaration of war only to repel an attack against the U.S. or to protect Americans abroad. These troops would have to be withdrawn within 30 days unless Congress approved the action. Senator Jacob Javits of New York had already put forth a similar bill. Some such legislation is very much in the national interest. There is no question that the President needs sweeping powers to deal with one of those 15-minute thermonuclear decisions that he, and we, pray that he will never have...
Married. Serge Obolensky, 80, the Russian prince who became a U.S.-based patriarch of the international jet set; and Marilyn Fraser Wall, 44, a Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., millionairess; she for the second time, he for the third (his marriages to the daughters of Czar Alexander II and John Jacob Astor ended in divorce); in Arlington...
Such an interpretation, however, is a careless reading of Washington's mood. Last week New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits warned in a Saigon press conference that the narcotics scandal was "the kind of issue that could upset everything"-meaning the continuation of U.S. military and economic aid. Bunker, in a strongly worded note, told Thieu much the same thing...
...thrown into the hopper as debate continues through the summer. The bills cover a broad spectrum of approaches and benefits. The A.M.A.'s "Medicredit" plan and a bill sponsored by the health-insurance industry seek to expand insurance protection by allowing tax benefits for premium payments. Senator Jacob Javits' proposal would gradually expand Medicare to cover the entire population. The American Hospital Association's "Ameri-plan," which has not yet been introduced in Congress, aims to create with federal assistance some 400 "healthcare corporations" across the country. Each would be responsible for bringing together the personnel...