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...march, a 300-mile pilgrimage to raise funds for a Texas Viet Nam veterans memorial, began in Dallas Oct. 19 and is to conclude on Veterans Day at the Alamo, in San Antonio, where the veterans will honor 161 Texas servicemen listed as missing in action. Westmoreland led the group along Interstate 35 just south of the small town of Pflugerville, then joined them the following day on the steps of the Texas capitol, in Austin, to accept a proclamation from Governor Mark White supporting the event. It was Westmoreland's second such march; in 1982 he led a procession...
...Hanoi government has begun a series of conciliatory moves. Among them are increasingly specific hints that a negotiated end may be possible to Viet Nam's military occupation of Kampuchea, formerly Cambodia. Additionally, a top official says that this month Hanoi will begin to disinter the remains of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action since the Viet Nam War. Despite such concessions, however, Pham's country faces an array of diplomatic problems, including China's continuing hostility and U.S. unease over the Soviet naval presence at Cam Ranh Bay. Excerpts from the interview...
...days from opening argument to final verdict, the espionage trial was the longest in British history. From the viewpoint of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, it was also a disaster. After more than a week of deliberation, a London jury last week acquitted two British servicemen accused of leading a Mediterranean spy operation that supposedly passed British and NATO military secrets to the Soviet Union. A week earlier, the same jury had acquitted five others charged with membership in the same purported ring. Both times, the panel spurned a prosecution case based largely on confessions that were, according...
...jury roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus...
...racial fratricide. More than 40% of all the nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans who lost their lives because of black-on-black violence in 1981 alone rivals the number of black servicemen killed during the twelve years of the Viet Nam conflict...