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...This saga of science is a compelling story, and the brilliant, arrogant Oppenheimer is a compelling character-a tragic symbol of one of the most triumphant yet melancholy periods in U.S. history. He would have made an ideal subject for an American TV network, but it is just as well that none of them has told his story, for it is hard to find much fault with this seven-part series from...
...latest story raises the abiding Watergate question: What did we already know, and when did we know it? Hersh, 45, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his expose of the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam, adds new details to the saga, based on interviews and previously unpublished information gathered by the Watergate special prosecutor's office. But most of the ground has been well turned before. Indeed, it was first explored by Hersh who, while a reporter with the New York Times, in 1973 revealed the extent of Kissinger's role in the wiretappings...
...case has been anything but fast. In fact, the Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with...
...saga of the Army's M2 and M3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) systems illustrates how costs can escalate out of control. "It is a horror story of the worst kind," says Major General Herbert McChrystal Jr., retired, who was an Army director of planning. The original plans, drawn up in 1972, envisioned an armored personnel carrier costing $400,000. As soon as development began, the Army review committee, a constantly changing board of top Pentagon staffers, began reconsidering exactly what jobs the vehicle should do. Should troops fight from the vehicle or get out? Should there be gun ports...
While in the embassy, the group completed a 225,000-word account of their heart-rending saga, reworked by John Pollock as The Siberian Seven (Word; $8.95). During a harsh anti-Christian campaign, starting in 1961, worship services were routinely broken up and many Pentecostal leaders were jailed. When their children faced cruel harassment at school-ridicule, ostracism and beatings-the Vashchenkos decided to educate them at home. The state then ruled them unfit parents, seized Lidiya and two sisters in 1962, and sent them to be raised in institutions until they turned...