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...five fatigued and panicky G.I.s and Lieut. Eugene Shurtz Jr., 26, a green company commander whose basic error, as another officer put it, was that "he tried to reason with the men when the situation called for a boot in the tail." At the present stage of the war, the Song Chang incident seemed symptomatic of U.S. fatigue with the continuing bloodshed. It hardly presaged, however, any general collapse of battlefield will, as some early reactions to the report seemed to suggest. In the field, in fact, Alpha Company's travail was soon shrugged off as a curious...
...novels, particularly The Tin Drum and Dog Years. Grass has also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support...
Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford is no novice at dealing with Presidents. Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson have all relied on his discreet and diplomatic talents. Still, Clifford may well have had his finest hour when he prepared the present military budget while serving as L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense. As one Pentagon official tells the story, an aide hurried into Clifford's office with the glad news that the year's budget would be $1 billion less than anticipated, and suggested that the Secretary call the President. "He certainly will be pleased," the aide said...
...inquest is not a criminal trial. While a person may be indicted during a grand-jury proceeding, no one stands accused of a crime at an inquest. Attorneys for witnesses may not be present at a grand-jury proceeding. They are sometimes allowed at an inquest; yet they are not normally permitted to raise objections to the testimony, nor do they have the right to cross-examine witnesses. Thus, the inquest testimony can range widely, and counsel is forbidden to challenge any allegations that are made, no matter how farfetched. Kennedy's lawyers claim, however, that a recent Supreme...
Dinis plans to call about 20 witnesses, including the five "boiler room" girls who were present at the cookout in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick (see THE NATION). The attorney for the girls wants Judge Boyle to narrow the scope of the inquiry. Without any restrictions on the questioning, he contends, the girls could be quizzed on their entire lives...