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...issue in the Westmoreland case is more than just...
...complex lawsuit has been called the final battle of the Viet Nam War, a legal struggle over key questions of culpability for America's most agonizing military defeat. Yet there is even more at stake as the case of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS News opens this week in a marble-encased Manhattan federal courtroom. Ultimately in question is the unfettered freedom of the U.S. press to examine critically actions of the nation's Government and public figures, as well as the public's growing impatience with perceived abuses of that freedom. It is likely...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...
...Virginia Westmoreland...
...thought it slowed the story down." He regrets having misled readers. Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick's 1982 Hollywood exposé Indecent Exposure, and Don Kowet's A Matter of Honor, an investigation, published this spring, of a CBS documentary about General William Westmoreland. Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein used unnamed sources to reconstruct scenes inside the Nixon White House in The Final Days. For Woodward's Wired, however, about Comedian John Belushi, he named sources section by section...