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Team Member Don Rothberg, 34, who once ran a beatnik restaurant in Berkeley, got a guarded tip from a high military source: "If you dig far enough back into the history of the M16, you might find something interesting." But it took him three weeks of rummaging through Congressional-committee hearings and long interviews with reluctant manufacturers and defense officials to produce his story on how mass production of the lightweight M-16 rifle, sorely needed in Viet Nam, had been delayed by Pentagon indecision for seven years. When the Army finally placed its orders, he discovered, it was paying...
Depth Beats Speed. Heller and Rothberg then spent a full five months, including line-by-line reading of 15 volumes of appropriations-committee hearings, to produce a highly critical series on defense-procurement practices. Team Member Dick Barnes, 30, a former editor of the Stanford Daily, examined 12,000 property records in Detroit to document just one claim in a story charging mismanagement of federal antipoverty funds in that city-the fact that a former business associate of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh had benefited from unusually high rents paid for the program's headquarters. Rothberg's reading...
...HEIRS OF CAIN, by Abraham Rothberg. The history of the Diaspora in this century brilliantly retold through the agony of an Israeli assassin, who is a kind of Jewish Everyman...
...Rothberg's anti-hero is Jacob Nissim, a veritable Aryan in appearance-blond, crew cut, blue eyes, short straight nose-but in experience perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth...
...accomplished killer, Nissim carries out his mission. But Rothberg is far too skilled a storyteller to let him escape unscathed. Nissim has always lost whatever he has loved, but he has survived, and at last he no longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days of Passover," he says, "Jews say a special prayer-the half Hallel. Tradition has it that when the Egyptians, in pursuing the Jews, were drowning in the Red Sea, the Lord kept His angels from singing His praises, admonishing them, 'How can you sing hymns while my creatures are drowning...