Word: weltner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broke from the pack last week and finished first with 46.6% of the vote. In next week's runoff, Jackson seems likely to beat incumbent Mayor Sam Massell, who finished second with 19.8%. Running a close third, with 19.1% of the vote, was Charles Weltner, a U.S. Congressman from 1963 to 1967 who was one of the South's first white liberals in national politics...
...They came to tell me the truth," Weltner recalls. "We're only part of it, they said." And to prove it they gave him a remarkable eight page memo describing the "Phoenix" program, a U. S. operation designed, as Weltner ironically described it, to eliminate the "Viet Cong Infrastructure, which has prevented the pacification program from taking hold of the hearts of the people...
...memorandum said that under the program over 8000 assassinations had been carried out in 1968 and 1969. Weltner feels that fear of disclosure by the CIA witnesses led the court martial to dismiss the case...
...think the Song My massacre had a big effect on the country." Weltner said. "Gradually there was a feeling that it's a shame to try these soldiers boys and not go after the big ones...
Since he arrived last Monday, Weltner has spent his time at Harvard reading books by Herman Hesse, Phillip Berrigan, and Nicos Kazantzakis. "It's easy when you're 18 to say, 'Yeah, that's right,' about these books." Weltner said. "It's when you're 40 and you have four kids that it really counts...