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...riot was known before the Kitty Hawk docked: a six-hour-long melee in which sailors attacked each other with chains and pipes, resulting in 46 injuries and 28 arrests. The full details of the violence will probably not be known until the end of the current court-martial proceedings against 22 black crew members, if then. However, TIME Correspondent Donn Downing interviewed several crew members of the Kitty Hawk after it docked and pieced together much of the atmosphere that led to the riot. One inevitable conclusion to be drawn from those interviews is that the trouble might have...
...holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper of the ill-fated Constellation, while discussing his racial problems, admitted to newsmen that some of his ordnance-handling equipment had been tampered with; other pieces had simply disappeared over the side...
...furor will continue. Congressman Edward Hebert, a hard-line traditionalist, is opening hearings this week in the House Armed Services Committee on the Navy's lack of discipline. And the Kitty Hawk returns this week to San Diego, where its officers will continue with courts-martial against the blacks involved in the October riot...
...mist of alternation, blown in periodically by the Combine's "log machines." World War II ranks high on the list of society's crimes against her individual members; it set Frank Scanion (Jon Richards) to building bombs with which to blow up his world, and gave Anthony Martial (William Preston) imaginary campanions and a phantom machine gun that jerks in his arms...
...curious factor in Marcos' dream of a "new society" is its puritanical streak. Brigadier General Fidel Ramos, commandant of the Philippine constabulary, said recently that his men had closed 124 gambling casinos, 24 of which had been operating openly on plush Roxas Boulevard before martial law was declared. "I hope, gentlemen," Ramos declared, "that I have not unduly interfered with your social life." Marcos has also banned the bombas, pornographic films with titles like Climax of Love and Naked in the Dark. Strangely, the Manila censor also closed down Nicholas and Alexandra...