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...hospitals were routine targets. Former Air Force Captain Gerald J. Greven, a forward air controller in Viet Nam in 1969, testified that hospitals were on lists of targets that he used to direct air strikes. The Air Force denied Greven's allegations, but former Army Intelligence Specialist Allan Stevenson told the committee that North Vietnamese hospitals had third priority for U.S. bombers, behind fixed installations and troop concentrations. He explained that hospitals were "legitimate and desirable targets" because they usually were centers for large numbers of troops, as well as headquarters and underground tunnel systems...
...baseball team, made up of staff members and "interns" (temporary aides), won out over the team of Illinois' other Senator, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III. Score: The Percy Kewshuns, 23; Ad's Libs, 17. Next for the Percy Kewshuns, the Ervin committee team...
...Ward Stevenson, a senior vice president of Hill & Knowlton Inc., public relations agency in Los Angeles: "Nixon made a bad mistake by surrounding himself with lawyers and admen. If they had been p.r. men, there would have been no Watergate coverup. We preach admitting mistakes, getting the facts out and the bad publicity behind us. I would encourage a voluntary appearance before the Senate committee, and regular press conferences...
...long as they concentrate on dusting off these pop curiosities, Levin and Abel do well enough. But they also try, unfortunately, for something a little more substantial. Adlai Stevenson joins Jayne Mansfield, Khrushchev is paired off with the Coasters. There is even a bathetic requiem to some departed figureheads of the decade as the 5 Satins sing I'll Be Seeing...
...racial militancy. He also had to cope with new dangers-bomb-throwing anarchists, skyjackers and an exploding drug traffic. White House officials quickly encouraged the Army to step up its domestic intelligence operations. Within two years, the Army had 25 million "personalities" on file. One of the victims, Adlai Stevenson HI, then Illinois state treasurer, was to call the operation "Kafka in khaki." The dismantling of the Army's internal counterinsurgency department was not begun until 1971, and then only in response to public outcry...