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...Senators enjoy the reputation for personal integrity that Mark Odom Hatfield, the courtly, square-jawed Oregon Republican, has earned in his 18 years on Capitol Hill. A deeply religious Baptist, Hatfield, 62, was one of the first Senators to oppose the Viet Nam War and was in the forefront of the nuclear-freeze movement. But last week, to the dismay of friends and colleagues, Hatfield found himself under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. The issue: whether four payments totaling $40,000 to Hatfield's wife constituted a bribe to win the Senator's backing...
...general offered intelligence tracings of the serial numbers on 214 U.S.-made M-16 rifles that were discovered in a guerrilla cache on July 27. No fewer than 156 of the rifles had been sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam during the 1960s; only 40 were delivered to the Salvadoran army. The evidence, Gorman said, suggested that the weapons were supplied by Viet Nam through Cuba and Nicaragua. Likewise, captured Chinese-made grenade launchers bore serial numbers in sequence with those of identical weapons captured by U.S. troops in Grenada. The U.S. explanation is that all the launchers were...
...this measure alone, Bloods is superb. The 20 blacks who discuss their experiences while serving in the Viet Nam War are uniformly eloquent. Editor Wallace Terry covered the fighting during the late 1960s as a TIME correspondent in Saigon and came away convinced that black combatants carried some unique burdens. They were, particularly during the earlier phases of U.S. involvement, doing a disproportionate amount of the dying. They were bearing arms against nonwhites in a cause that was increasingly dividing blacks as well as the entire U.S. And they came home not to acclaim (few Viet Nam vets received that...
...violence recalled in Bloods is chilling: the slow torture of a North Vietnamese army officer by a company of U.S. infantry; the unspeakable ordeal of a white American soldier who had been half-flayed by the Viet Cong and staked to the ground; he begged for death when his countrymen found him three days later. But the horrors perpetrated in Viet Nam, that most reported and televised of wars, are by now familiar. More surprising and heartening is the sense of affinity that blacks remember toward the people they were assigned to protect or slaughter. Says an Army interpreter...
...netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book, No More Viet Nams. Though there was speculation that he might even play some role at this month's Republican Convention in Dallas, he declined...