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...cutting back however slightly the number of Americans fighting in Viet Nam, Nixon sought to mollify the domestic impatience with the war; that dissatisfaction had helped him win election last November. There were countervailing risks. Although some of the troops will be pulled back no farther than Okinawa, Nixon would surely evoke deafening protest in the U.S. in the highly unlikely event that serious military reversals made it necessary to send some of the troops back. The greater danger, however, is that the enemy will simply ignore Nixon's initiative?on the assumption that continued popular op position...
Offered Suqaestions. Burger questioned the principle of trial by jury, the shield offered by the Fifth Amendment and the presumption of innocence until a defendant is proved guilty. He called the American adversary system of criminal justice "inefficient and wasteful." He offered a number of suggestions and comments...
...operational general staff, and all its strategic plans and commands come from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Unlike other NATO powers, which allot part of their armed forces to NATO but keep command of the remainder, every single West German combat unit is under NATO command. Although a number of West German officers are mixed in with other allied officers in the NATO command structure, in practical terms the Bundeswehr is an extension of the U.S. Seventh Army. U.S. Lieut. General Donald Bennett, commanding VII Corps in Stuttgart, notes that Germany "is the only major country in the world that...
Filling the ranks has become increasingly difficult. Spurred by West Germany's noisy left, the number of applications for exemption by conscientious objectors has risen from 6,000 in 1967 to 11,800 last year-and 81% of the exemptions were granted. West Berlin, where residents are draft-exempt, is increasingly used as an asylum for young men who want to avoid military service. They stay there as students or workers until they pass draft age. In recent weeks, three Bundeswehr officers-two of whom held sensitive positions-have defected to East Germany. There is an increase of minor...
...have some friends of the kind that obviates the need for many enemies: the far-right National Democratic Party of Adolf von Thadden. In his convention speech at Stuttgart last month, Von Thadden spent 60 out of 90 minutes talking sympathetically about the Bundeswehr and deploring its problems. A number of officers are campaigning as National Democratic candidates in the September elections...