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...could take a look at some of the particulars in the Westmoreland trial, in out-takes from your taped interview with (former U.S. National Security Adviser Walter) Rostow. Rostow appeared to refute the hypothesis of "The Uncounted Enemy." Why weren't those comments included in the broadcast...
...Rostow did not refuse the basic theis of the documentary. Dr. Rostow confessed that he knew nothing whatsoever about the nub of the discussion. He knew that there was a dispute between CIA and MACV about the uncounted enemy, about enemy strength...
...headlines by both sides' aggressive efforts at public relations. Much of the publicity favored Westmoreland. Once the suit reached court, Attorney Burt demonstrated that several key former officials who took Westmoreland's side either were not interviewed for the broadcast or, like President Johnson's National Security Adviser Walt Rostow, were left on the cutting-room floor. But Judge Leval counseled the jury that "fairness" was not an issue; Westmoreland had to prove both that the documentary was false and that CBS had good reason to know...
Unlike Walt Rostow, who worked for Lyndon Johnson and was not welcomed back at M.I.T., and Henry Kissinger, who chose, because of faculty opposition, not to return to Harvard, Jeane Kirkpatrick will be returning to academe. Her re- entry at Georgetown University as a teacher and thinker will no doubt create a few ripples. Perhaps her greatest legacy will be the rebirth of the idea that after an election America needs help from every quarter...
...Rostow, who was characterized by Author David Halberstam in The Best and the Brightest as a "cheerleader" for the military effort, said that Johnson had been well aware of disputes among military factions and the CIA over how to count "self-defense" and "secret self-defense" forces. These fighters, who operated, respectively, in enemy-and U.S.-held territory, laid traps and took potshots but were not part of regular combat units. Komer, who was known to Viet Nam-era journalists as Blow Torch for his high-powered manner, was asked by CBS Attorney David Boies whether these forces were armed...