Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam (MAC-V), he has under him all U.S. servicemen-115,000 soldiers, 10,000 sailors, 17,500 airmen, 45,000 marines, 250 coast guardsmen-in the country. More than 1,000 Army helicopters and light aircraft are his responsibility, as well as some 550 U.S. Air Force planes-soon to be increased to 1,200-and a Navy seadrome at Cam Ranh...
...alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical ones in helping to solve the age-old puzzler of free will v. determinism. Free will is back in philosophical style, and Wiggins concedes that the traditional way of stating that problem "wasn't after all in quite such a mess as had recently been supposed...
...Defense v. Offense. Now 42 and a Boston lathe operator, Ashe feels he has come back to life. In a precedent-setting decision, his dishonorable discharge has been tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. And the court has all but endorsed what he claimed all along-that he was totally innocent of the charges...
Although the district court still refused to take jurisdiction in light of Article 76, the appellate court saw things Murphy's way-and thus spelled out an exception to Article 76 that may well embolden other ex-servicemen in Ashe's situation. In effect, Ashe v. McNamara is another sign that U.S. military justice is gradually assuming many of the standards of civilian justice. Not only is Ashe ecstatic; his boss is so pleased that he has ordered the Navy veteran to resume his tenth-grade education at the company's expense...
Mayor John V. Lindsay, unlike his predecessor, is inexperienced as both a mayor and as a labor negotiator, and does not have the benefit of the "understanding" that has existed between Quill and the Democratic mayors since the inauguration of William F. O'Dwyer...