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...Administration I expected him to be the Secretary of State. Since he started the Senate investigation of Viet Nam policy [Feb. 18], I have been shocked. He could not choose a more inopportune time. I fear that the bitniks-pacifists will really succeed in making null and void all pur efforts to settle the war. I suggest making him a four-star general of the bitnik-pacifist army, and sending all of them to Viet...
...Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when the U.S. managed to get its resolution requesting the U.N. to arrange a peace conference on the Security Council's agenda by a one-vote margin. Since Hanoi had already announced that it would consider any U.N. decision "null and void," the effort seemed less like peace-punching than shadowboxing...
Robert J. DeGiacomo, an attorney for Curry, urged Saturday that the Council suspend Curry's hearing until the criminal questions had been resolved. Barring this, he said, the three councillors ought to disqualify themselves. "If these charges are proven, all these proceedings would be void," he declared...
...stripped to the bone by the howling winds of life, a man strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
...writ of habeas corpus. And to make matters worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed to a 1962 law that gives district courts jurisdiction for the first time over cases in which a U.S. official has been asked "to perform...