Word: murdered
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...Saigon and help "get rid" of Diem. Lansdale says he turned down the President's invitation. Was Kennedy making a thinly veiled request for Diem's head? Historian Schlesinger makes the pertinent point: "When politicians talk about getting rid of someone, this does not mean they want to murder them...
...flimsiest part of this book. Much of what he says is well known: that Kennedy was deeply complicit in the 1963 coup that toppled Ngo Dinh Diem. But Hersh insists that Kennedy not only approved the coup but also knew about and at least acquiesced in plans to murder Diem and his brother. His evidence for this is almost nonexistent: a cryptic, secondhand account of a conversation between Kennedy and CIA agent Edward Lansdale, a vague thirdhand account of a secret visit to Diem in 1963 by the President's friend Torbert Macdonald, the unsupported speculation of officials...
Imagine the best O.J. conversation you've ever had--and since you've probably had several thousand of them, this is saying something--and you'll have an idea what it's like talking to Dunne. The author of best-selling romans a clef about murder like The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and An Inconvenient Woman, Dunne became renowned for his coverage of the Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith and Menendez brothers trials. He sat in the Simpson courtroom from the first day to the last, and each month produced a savvy, pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly...
...phase of it is coming to a close. Dunne says Another City, Not My Own is his farewell to murder trials. For readers, that's too bad. What has marked his work is not his writing or his reporting but his moral fervor. To journalists the Simpson trial was a great story; to the attorneys it seemed to be a competition; to the public it was a mini-series. Certainly, Dunne relished the spectacle, but more than anyone else, he passionately attended to what the trial was really about--the slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Having seen...
Does China's president, Jiang Zemin, truly believe China freed Tibet from slavery, as he claims in his interview with Time [WORLD, Oct. 27]? And should the murder of 1.2 million Tibetans be known as the emancipation of Tibet? No Tibetan was a slave to Buddhism when the Dalai Lama governed Tibet, but the Tibetans remaining in their native land are surely slaves to China. TASHI GYALTSEN Calgary...