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...would attribute a higher degree of impartiality to the press if irregularities had always been treated with a uniform degree of intensiveness...
Westmoreland's working uniform used to be fatigues that were faded with wear but always had perfect, knife-edge creases. Thus it is something of a shock to notice, as he waves a guest into his small carriage house on Prices Alley in the historic old section of Charleston, that he is wearing a pair of rumpled slacks, sport shirt with tail out, and a pair of soft black moccasins that have not lately seen much spit and polish. Yet the short gray hair is still carefully combed straight back, the lean jaw still juts. Taut...
...first commander since the Spanish-American War who "had to look over his shoulder and to reflect on the support of the home front as anything other than an asset." In other accounts of the war, says Westmoreland, "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Viet Nam have been given the credit they deserve...
...turned into the hotel drive way, the students pummeled its roof and windows with their fists. Other vehicles in the motorcade were forced to a halt and the demonstrators - mainly in their teens - tried to open each car. One of those mobbed, despite his civil service uniform, was the Thai government's own Secretary-General Choosak Watanaronchai, who saved himself by shouting "I'm a Thai!" Other bands of students broke four windows in the city's most prominent Japanese department store (the Thai Daimaru) and threw a small plastique bomb at the Japanese Trade Center...
...military is now in such disgrace that even the Minister of Defense wears a business suit in public, rather than his general's uniform. Nonetheless, competent civilians still hesitate taking power, because they have long viewed participation in politics with distaste. In fact the Thai language uses the idiom "to play at politics" rather than "to go into politics." Thus even Sanya Dhamasakti, the popular civilian who has been temporary Prime Minister for the past three months, wants to return quickly to his job as rector of Bangkok's Thammasat University...