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Despite the rules, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam-and prosecution has often been prompt. In the I Corps area last year, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nevertheless, all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
...Commerce meeting. But even on that front, a certain style is developing. Pat Nixon, who once had the catty Women's Wear Daily sniping because she refused to be a clotheshorse, has now had to protest that she did not, in fact, sink $19,000 into couture last year. Actually, says Pat, she came to Washington with some clothes "left over from before that people hadn't seen because we didn't live here...
...account of the Republican Convention last year, Norman Mailer made a grudging observation: "A man who could produce daughters like that could not be all bad." David and Julie Eisenhower are still moving wholesomely in the background. But startlingly, Tricia, who once seemed shy and reticent, has emerged as a luminous blonde who turns up playing hostess at a White House Halloween party or holding hands at Manhattan's "21" with Eddie Cox, a young Eastern liberal lawyer who used to work for Ralph Nader's Raiders...
Mollenhoff Cocktail. Some of Nixon's men are emerging at last as fairly colorful in their business hours as well. White House Aide Clark Mollenhoff's attack on opponents of Judge Clement Haynsworth on a Washington television program was so vehement that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers...
Despite a letter from Secretary of State William Rogers saying that granting Mandel a visa was "in the national interest," Mitchell last week refused to allow the 46-year-old economist to make another visit. He had been invited to lecture at several U.S. universities, including Princeton, M.I.T. and Vassar. The reason: in 1968, Mandel deviated from his itinerary, which under the provisions of the act is forbidden. Mandel claims -and the State Department apparently agrees-that he was never fully briefed on the act's provisions. Recently, Mandel has made a careful study of the McCarran...