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...Laos. High-speed trails have been cut eastward from Laos into South Viet Nam to supply the Communist besiegers, who are heavily armed with portable howitzers and mortars. To ensure easier access to the new trails, the Communists last week overran the Royal Laotian border outpost of Ban Houei Sane and put its 2,000 defenders to flight...
...this is precisely what is required. Washington should tell Saigon what virtually every sane person knows--namely that the task of destroying the Vietcong insurgency is a Sisyphean one. The U.S. should then, of course, inform Thieu that she intends to pursue all peace feelers in the hope of ending her prohibitively costly involvement in Vietnam...
...also has run for Congress once from the upper West Side (coming very close to winning); started one of the first groups to protest the war during the late summer of 1965 (Americans for a Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy); and has been elected to the national board of SANE, the vice chairmanship of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the board of the Rev. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and now the co-chairmanship of the Conference of Concerned Democrats. He is considered a prime candidate, according to national columnist James Weschler...
There was no doubt that in April 1965, in San Antonio, Raymond Sledge shotgunned his ex-wife and her husband to death in front of witnesses. The jury's only problem was to decide whether he was sane or insane. Two psychiatrist witnesses, Dr. Alfred Hill and Dr. James Paul McNeil!, agreed that he was in a paranoid state, that he had been and still was insane. Dr. Hill said that he was not treatable, was potentially dangerous, and "should not be permitted to have freedom again in his adult life." Dr. McNeill warned that under treatment. Sledge would...
...previous opinion and testified that Sledge "is, today, not a potentially dangerous criminal." The hearing ended with a hung jury, and another was held this month. At that one. Dr. McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state...