Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varied experience, says Clark, "nothing prepared me for covering Vietnamese politics, which are unfathomable to the Vietnamese themselves." Viet Nam and its troubles, he says, are an obsessive subject with everyone in the bureau. For occasional lighthearted relief, Clark reports that he and his colleagues have spent their spare time working out some novel methods for ending the war. It is doubtful that either statesmen or generals will agree on the peace-winning potential of the most imaginative of the bureau's ideas: "Drop 50,000 Honda motor scooters by parachute on Hanoi. In the hands of Vietnamese riders...
Laird is well-cast as the bearer of such news. He has long prided himself on his hardline, no-nonsense approach to military affairs. He developed a considerable expertise on the subject as a member for 14 years of the House Appropriations subcommittee, which oversees all defense expenditures. Twice, in fact, he taxed Robert Mc-Namara with underestimating costs in Viet Nam and produced his own calculations, which McNamara rejected. On both occasions, Laird turned out to be right...
...wrong side of the table-where one is expected to have good answers and not just good questions." Laird concedes that it is easier to be an inquisitor than an advocate. At a time when even the best-laid plans and pronouncements of the military Establishment are increasingly subject to public skepticism, he may face a tougher job than any of his predecessors...
...very surprised by last week's doings. Even before Ray's letter was delivered, Battle apparently anticipated that the case would drop back into his lap. Fiercely uncommunicative about Ray, he continued to guard his tongue. A misplaced word might oblige him to disqualify himself and subject another judge to the ordeal that Battle has endured since he was assigned to try Ray last July 20. Said Battle: "I would not do that to anyone...
...ignite fresh controversy. The jury indicted eight demonstrators and eight Chicago policemen for their part in the disorders. The demonstrators were the first to be charged under the 1968 antiriot section of the Civil Rights Act for conspiring and crossing state lines to in cite riot. Among those subject to as much as ten years in prison and $20,000 in fines, if convicted, are such movement luminaries as David Dellinger, Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, Yippie Leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Black Panther Bobby Scale and two university instructors who helped to organize the demonstrations...