Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenues fell by more than 10% in 1970. In addition, the U.S. is bringing home nearly a third of the 64,000 troops stationed in South Korea. The effect can already be seen in microcosm in the town of Inchon. When the U.S.'s Camp Kaiser closed down there in November, 10,000 shopkeepers, taxi drivers and prostitutes were deprived of their prime source of income...
Just why Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy may never be fully explained. But few have tried harder to solve the mystery than Journalist Robert Blair Kaiser. With an enterprise perhaps slightly contaminated by opportunism, Kaiser became an investigative member of Sirhan's legal-defense team only weeks after the assassination. In the months before a California jury condemned Sirhan to die for first-degree murder, Kaiser recorded many hours of psychiatric interviews with Sirhan, while keeping an intimate journal on the defense, the prosecution and Sirhan's own behavior...
...result of Kaiser's effort is sometimes fascinating but, like the case itself, weirdly incomplete. Kaiser suggests that investigations by the FBI and the Los Angeles police were sufficiently slovenly to demand reopening the case. Kaiser claims some evidence that Sirhan stalked Kennedy on several occasions, once in a Pomona, Calif., restaurant two weeks before the assassination, at which time he was accompanied by a woman. Kaiser thinks she might have been "the girl in the polka-dot dress" whom witnesses claimed to have seen at the Ambassador Hotel on June...
...Kaiser hesitates to claim a conspiracy, and with good reason. He does not present any compelling evidence for it. Rather, he has elaborate suspicions. This is natural enough in a period of political assassinations, but thus far the truth remains locked in Sirhan's head...
Much more interesting than Kaiser's theories is his portrait of Sirhan, the strange little Rosicrucian enthusiast who was adept at automatic writing and obsessed with buying a Mustang. For anyone who valued Robert Kennedy, it is impossibly sad to hear Sirhan telling Kaiser: "As far as for me to have satisfied myself with Kennedy, I think all I would have needed to do was just to give him a good punch in the nose at that Ambassador. I think that would have satisfied me." Lance Morrow