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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallimaufry of reports, books and papers, studying and slicing. He especially delighted in heckling the military. In an annual spring ritual, he would arise with flailing arms to castigate the Pentagon. Starting with Philip of Macedon's tactics, he would trace the history of warfare through Henry V down to the first and second World Wars. Military men, he protested, were not susceptible to change-especially changes that might save money. "We had a deuce of a time getting them to give up the cavalry," he cried. "They liked to ride those horses...
Miserable Story. Casualty totals for April, during which the Viet Cong continued to roam the Mekong Delta almost at will, were the highest so far. The government suffered 610 killed, 1,630 wounded, 390 missing or captured (v. an officially estimated 1,700 Viet Cong dead). The toll of Americans last month was six killed, 101 wounded. According to one U.S. official, General Nguyen Khanh's "clear-land-hold" program in the delta is making "practically no indent at all," and Long An province south of Saigon is "a miserable story...
...first (1833-39) was lost by the Carlists through the ineptitude of their pretender, Don Carlos V. During the second (1872-76), Don Carlos VII's forces at one point controlled most of Navarre, three Basque provinces and much of Catalonia before his indecision lost...
...answer given by Judge Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. In a notable lecture at American University, Judge Burger traced the suppression doctrine back to 1886 when the Supreme Court banned evidence consisting of a man's private papers (Boyd v. United States). In subsequent and often conflicting opinions, frets Burger, judges have construed the doctrine as proscribing evidence ranging from narcotics to a murder victim's body. As a result, says Burger, more and more criminals are going free on what newspapers call "technicalities." Those technicalities are clearly the errors...
Sensible Change. President Abernethy has done what he could to liven up AMC autos by adding plush touches to the interiors of his cars, bringing out an optional V-8 engine for the Ambassador and Classic, and introducing a limited-production Typhoon sports car that is powered by a spirited, brand-new six-cylinder engine. But Abernethy's first real chance to reverse AMC's decline comes this fall with the introduction of the first models for which he is responsible. The big change: the Ambassador has been redesigned and enlarged to compete with the Big Three...