Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam experience, produced the material for our cover and subsidiary articles. In Nation, Senior Editor Jason McManus assigned the main account of the tragedy to Ed Magnuson, while Peter Stoler and Keith Johnson wrote related stories. Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and Law Writer Howard Muson dealt with the legal dilemmas involved in bringing the men to trial, and Senior Editor John Elson wrote the Essay on the profound questions of good and evil raised by the tragedy. In addition, Press Writer Ted Bolwell discussed who first broke the story...
...intent to murder some 30 Vietnamese. The biggest mystery so far is why no charges have been placed against Captain Medina, who played an important role in the slaughter by the accounts of a number of his men, though exactly what orders he issued is disputed (see The Legal Dilemmas, page 32). At the same time, the Army has ordered a top-level probe of its own initial investigation, which found nothing amiss...
Primary Allegiance. Serious legal problems also confront the Army in its case against Lieut. Calley and Sgt. Mitchell, the only active servicemen thus far accused of crimes at My Lai. For one thing, Army lawyers fear that detailed press interviews with potential witnesses may permit the accused to claim that they cannot get a fair trial. Almost surely, moreover, both Calley and Mitchell will argue at their trials that they acted under "superior orders," a legal defense that gained respectability in the 19th century when military officers extolled iron regimentation and insisted that superiors could do no wrong...
...government crisis. When the debate resumed this fall, 100 Christian Democratic Deputies filibustered against the bill. Replying to their protests, Sponsor Fortuna said: "Even now it is possible to break up a family by buying a fiscal stamp for 400 lire [66?]-the price of an application for a legal separation." Outside Parliament, demonstrators waved banners reading "Even Viet Nam has divorce" and "Divorce is for everyone...
Beeton's Book of Household Management -First Facsimile Edition, by Isabella Bee-ton. 1,112 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $12.95. An engrossing compendium of cookery, psychology, etiquette, management, legal, medical, moral and drainage information, which first appeared in England in 1861 and is still history's bestselling cookbook. "Men are now so well served out of doors-at their clubs, well-ordered taverns and dining-houses," the author points out, "that in order to compete ..." Any bride can finish the sentence. Mrs. Beeton, however, makes the role of bride only slightly less awesome than handling flight patterns...