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Colby himself was and is an anomaly: a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton in 1940, a Wall Street lawyer after that, he headed the Pheonix Program in Viet Nam in the mid-'60s. Daniel Ellsberg '52 and others estimate that possibly 70,000 anti-Saigon government leaders were killed in that program's giant dragnet...
...former Central Intelligence head said Monday night that Pheonix was only one part of the larger pacification program, and that it largely involved distributing arms to villagers who, for all we knew, were apolitical or Communist. In any event, Colby said, 85 per cent of the Pheonix's 20,000 victims were killed in legitimate military skirmishes...
...Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads the Arizona NDC. "Well, after November, there's just no applecart left." The conservatives are weak in Arizona and are searching for attractive candidates for lower offices, which the new liberals can have almost for the asking if they appear to be winners...
...specifically criticized Sen. Goldwater for attempting "to link the Negro freedom movement with crime in the streets," and for pointing to the rising crime rate in New York and Washington, D.C.,--"both of which have high Negro populations--when the crime rate in Pheonix, Arizona is actually higher than in either...
Hagerty (angerily): I think when the President of the U.S. wants to go anywhere with his wife, that is his business and nobody else's Question: Was Mamie going to Pheonix to "rest and be slimmed down...