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Interviews-Second-year law students (2L's in HVD jargon) go to Charlestown and Billerica jails and the Youth Service Board Detention Center, where they interview inmates to gather information for the Massachusetts Defenders Committee (MDC). The memoranda prepared from these sessions and the results of any other basic pre-trial investigation are used either by MDC attorneys or third-year law students (3L's), who are allowed in court under proper supervision. Between 700 and 1000 such interviews were conducted last year, according to Robert J. Katz, a second-year law student and recently elected President...
...they had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Viet Nam veterans as a prelude to Saturday's march. The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III, "a limited incursion into the country of Congress," in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards and medals: Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts. Some were missing...
...Operation Dewey Canyon III, an assault on "the country of Congress, a limited incursion for the purpose of severing supply lines being utilized by the illegal mercenary forces of the Executive Branch." The parody of military jargon is skillful, and with good reason: D.C. Ill will be carried out by a brigade of 5,000 Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. The veterans will mount one of the most elaborate antiwar protests of the spring. Dressed in fatigues and battle ribbons and carrying plastic M-16 rifles, they will "occupy" Washington for five days, holding a memorial service at Arlington...
TIME has no front page in the newspaper sense of the word, but we have always paid special attention to the first page of the Nation section. Traditionally that has been the spot for our lead article, known in office jargon as the "Nation lede." Almost invariably it deals with some major event-more often than not, the actions of the President. The Nation lede, of course, is still there, but it has moved a little farther into the magazine. Now it is preceded by a feature that the editors introduced 18 months ago, entitled American Notes...
...Platt and Political Scientist Dieter Senghaas of Goethe University in Frankfurt. The three scholars recently completed a major study of creative achievements in the social sciences, which they summarized in Science magazine. Countering the lingering academic disdain for behavioral studies as either imprecise esoterica or common sense festooned with jargon, the authors make a convincing case that the breakthroughs in social science have been real, cumulative, and possessed of as much practical impact as discoveries in pure science and technology...