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Died. John Mecklin, 53, journalist; of cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. A cum laude graduate of the Ernie Pyle school, Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942 as a correspondent for the United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became...
...award-winning Army spying story came to Peters in the mail from a former intelligence agent, Christopher Pyle. In March 1969, a former member of the Department of Defense brought in an article on "How the Pentagon Can Save $9,000,000." Senator Frank Church has lectured Nixon on how to end the Viet Nam War, and a Justice Department lawyer described how political considerations often outweigh legal requirements in the Department of Justice...
...route, the plains and suburbs produce a supporting cast that is nothing less than Dickensian. Among the featured players: Roquefort the intrepid mouse, a scatsinging feline jazz band from the era of Sidney Bechet, a pair of American expatriate hound dawgs with IQs slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr that could only have issued from the vocal cords of Eva Gabor. They and the rest...
...many existing dictatorships, however, the police function, while pervasive, is not undertaken by the Army. Recent disclosures such as Pyle's concerning the Army's intelligence operations in the "continental United States" raise serious questions about the Army's role in domestic politics. The judge who dismissed the ACLU suit claimed that Army maintenance of files was no different than maintenance of files by a newspaper. Frank Askin, arguing for the plaintiffs, observed that no newspaper also possessed weapons or other means of force to deploy against whoever was on file. The right of the Army to operate data banks...
...necessity of Congressional investigation is evident. The Army, or the Justice Department, or Treasury, for that matter, will evade the issue unless threatened by hearings. Pyle has already documented how the Army, by means of plausible denials and half-assurances, succeeded in placating Sen. Ervin and Rep. Gallagher when they threatened to hold hearings earlier in the year...