Word: william
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon staff includes a varied crew of correspondents. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark is a Middle Westerner who was political editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME. Wallace Terry, who will soon go to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. William Marmon, a Virginian with a Princeton degree, once taught school in Greece. John Wilhelm, a Florida native, used to be a TIME correspondent in Washington. Chicago-born Burton Pines studied at the University of Wisconsin and was working in Heidelberg on his Ph.D. in history when he was hired...
...Nixon approach carries other concomitant difficulties. The effectiveness of many South Vietnamese combat units remains in doubt, and no one knows for sure whether they will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn. One South Vietnamese official recently told Secretary of State William Rogers: "It's like a man learning to ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they...
...lawyer as an "upstanding family man" who "married his high school sweetheart." The patrolman admitted shooting Pollard when the youth "came at me." He also acknowledged making conflicting statements immediately after the incident, saying that he had feared that he would be blamed for all three deaths. Judge William Beer, in a highly unusual move, ruled out conviction on lesser charges and directed the jury either to acquit August or to find him guilty of first-degree murder, with a mandatory life sentence. The judge reasoned that the prosecution's contentions ruled out manslaughter or second-degree murder...
...becoming a political embarrassment, pushed for a settlement. Incentive came from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which threatened to cut off federal financial assistance to the hospitals if they declined to rehire twelve union members who had been fired. This threat was too much even for Dr. William McCord, president of Medical College Complex and a firm opponent of union recognition...
...request of the senior class, Yale officials broke a 75-year-old tradition to allow a student, Class Secretary William M. Thompson Jr., to give a commencement address. Thompson, an honor student in American Studies from Richmond, announced that the class had voted overwhelmingly to dedicate its commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience...