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...ended the congressional career of Robert Frederick Drinan, who was dean of the Boston College Law School in 1970 when he ran for the House because of his revulsion against the Viet Nam War. He served with single-minded devotion to liberal causes. He was a leader of the successful battle to abolish the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the Un-American Activities Committee). He advocated strong support for Israel, and he was the first Congressman to introduce a resolution to impeach Richard Nixon. The citation from his 1977 honorary doctorate from Villanova University, which hangs on his office wall...
...honorary member of the regiment is Colonel Charlie Beckwith of the U.S. Special Forces, who led the ill-fated attempt to rescue the American hostages in Tehran. Beckwith was dispatched for training to S.A.S. headquarters in Hereford in 1962, before embarking on a tour of duty in Viet Nam. After the war, he drew on the skills and methods he had learned from the S.A.S. when forming his own commando team of "Charlie's Angels." "Charlie was the best that any army could produce," says an S.A.S. officer. "The difference is that we were operating in our own backyard...
...policies that Carter and Vance unveiled with much fanfare three years ago but that have either been revised or reversed and therefore did not bear mentioning in the letter: the human rights campaign, the curbing of conventional arms sales, nuclear nonproliferation, the pursuit of normal relations with Cuba and Viet Nam, the withdrawal of troops from Korea...
Friends of Beckwith, 51, a true, if little-publicized, hero of Special Forces missions in Viet Nam, insist that he returned crestfallen from the failure in the desert, angry at being ordered to end the effort and on the verge of resigning his commission. But last week he appeared at a select Pentagon press conference at which photos were banned to protect his potential future usefulness in covert operations. He brusquely denied all allegations that he had opposed the decision to abort...
...watched old TV films of life inside the embassy; as each of several hostages appeared on the screen, the film was stopped so that his face could be carefully scrutinized by his relatives. They also heard Navy Captain Richard Stratton describe his experiences as a prisoner of war in Viet Nam for six years. At the conclusion of the meeting, the families issued a statement saying they "not only support the President's decision in this attempt but feel that every effort should continue to be made to secure the release of our unjustly held relatives...