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...November, after police raided the apartment of Michael Smith, 20, the troubled youth who brought the town a fame of sorts a year ago when he got drunk at a debutante party and accidentally drove his date to her death. That time, Smith was convicted of negligent homicide and reckless driving. This time, using a search warrant, the cops nabbed Smith and his roommate for possession of marijuana, which they said was stashed in his attic, a suitcase and a bureau drawer...
...That shield, ruled the court in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, prevents a public official from collecting damages for even false criticism of his conduct, unless he proves that the statement was "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false, or with reckless disregard of whether...
Californian Donald C. Dawson, 25, emerged from the jungle north of Bien Hoa airbase and reported that his reckless, obsessive search for his brother, Army Lieut. Daniel Dawson, was over after nine months-four of them as a Viet Cong prisoner. "They told me he was dead and gave me a flight vest he wore, and then they told me to go," said Don sadly. He never saw the grave, but the Viet Cong claimed they would tend it until Dawson could come back after the war to recover the body of his brother, shot down last...
...McCloskey, a State Department public information officer, told reporters that U.S. forces were prepared to give "combat support" to Vietnamese troops at the discretion of General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. McCloskey's statement triggered an outcry that this represented a new and reckless U.S. policy...
...nation we hold immense power," statement continued. "To permit it to used in reckless and barbarous ways in imperil the entire basis of American leadership." The statement demanded of the Johnson administration "make arrest attempt to obtain a negotiated peace...