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...refugees and other immigrants could land in the taxpayers' lap. According to the government's own estimate, the cost of treating the average AIDS patient from diagnosis to death is $100,000. "Our medical care, social-services net and free public education are a magnet for immigrants," argues Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative lobbying group in Washington. "We can't bring people here en masse for medical treatment...
...Hillel is a really hard place to go alone,"says Stephanie Stein...
AUTHOR: JEFF STEIN...
Author Jeff Stein, who was serving as a military intelligence officer in Vietnam when the case broke, paints an exhaustively researched and heavily documented history of the murder. But is it murder? How did Chuyen's death differ from the hundreds of Vietnamese killed in the CIA's Operation Phoenix? Unlike the rowdy and unprofessional soldiers at My Lai, these Green Berets were elite and disciplined troops. Can they be faulted for believing Project Gamma to be an extremely critical intelligence operation, deserving of all efforts to protect...
This tautly written volume is The Caine Mutiny of the Vietnam War. Like Herman Wouk's wonderfully elusive Captain Queeg, the Green Beret conspirators, beginning with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...