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Webster was chosen from an original list of 117 prospects that was narrowed down to two after Bell consulted with lawyers, judges and law-enforcement officials. He and the other finalist, Federal Judge Frank McGarr of Chicago, met with Carter last week. Bell noted that both are Republicans; the Administration has been under heavy fire lately for partisanship in its appointments of federal judges and prosecutors. Bell suggested that Carter's decision might have turned on a simple affinity of temperament. "McGarr is a trial lawyer and has a more dominant personality," said the Attorney General. "Webster is given...
...Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams was succeeded in 1960 by Lieut. General Lionel McGarr, who many critics think was too chairborne and conventional-minded to deal with the hit-and-run tactics of the Communist Viet Cong insurgents. During one briefing session with Presidential Emissary General Maxwell Taylor last year, McGarr gave a detailed report on the numbers of Viet Cong guerrillas infiltrating...
...raid, just before Christmas, was exactly what U.S. Lieut. General Lionel McGarr wanted. For months, McGarr and his Military Assistance Advisory Group have been drawing up a Counter-Insurgency Plan with staff officers of the South Viet Nam army. The plan aims at getting the South Vietnamese out of their defensive posture and into a mobile and determined pursuit that will carry the war to the heart of the Reds' jungle strongholds. Due Hoa represented the plan's first trial...
After the first night's breaks, U.N. Brigadier General Lionel McGarr relieved the ROK guards at Camp No. 10 near Inchon with marines and U.S. Army M.P.s. They were told to fire only if their own lives were threatened. On the second night, No. 10's inmates assembled inside the stockades, hurled volleys of stones, charged the wire in masses. The U.S. guards fired, killing or wounding more than 100. Some prisoners were trampled to death, others were torn to bits on the wire. Altogether, more than 40 of them died at Inchon. The marines themselves were fired...