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— Griffin Daily News Satulday, December 23, 1972
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Prisoners stage
Christmas program
HARDWICK, Ga. (UPI) — Prison inmates turned to
angles Friday night at the Colony Farm correctional
institution.
The occasion was Christmas padget for the 172 inmates
and their families.
King Herrod, Joseph and the wise men appeared on
stage along with Mary, played by Sherry Maynard, the
wife of Warden Raymond Maynard.
The performance was a repeat of one acted out last year
at the state’s correctional institution at Buford.
Maynard said the prisoners had worked about six weeks
on the project — building sets, painting scenes and dying
old sheets for costumes.
Suspects questioned
in store owner’s death
SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (UPI)— Officers are questioning
three suspects in the fatal shooting of a rural store owner,
Willie B. Redding, 51, who died of a gunshot wound
Friday.
Redding was shot in the chest when three men robbed
him lliursday night. The men also beat him and made off
with his billfold.
Redding’s store is located in the Eden community on
U.S. 80.
Bookstore suit
in federal court
ATLANTA (UPI) — A federal court has taken under
advisement a suit by a bookstore specializing in erotic
literature challenging the state’s public nusiance law.
Harem Adult Bookstore attorneys said Fulton County
officials had attempted to padlock the establishment
under the law. Fulton officials had sought a civil action
against the bookstore, but the suit was moved to federal
court from superior court and has been stayed pending a
decision on the constitutionality question.
The bookstore’s attorneys said the issue is not whether
the bookstore’s merchandise is obscene. They said the
county wants to prohibit the sale of any material in
violation of the freedom-of-speech amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
Chattanooga nixes
land sale proposal
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UPI) - The head of the
Georgia Properties Control Commission said Friday he
tried to sell the City of Chattanooga 2.48 acres of land
owned by Georgia, but the city wouldn’t have any part of
the deal.
The state has sued in chancery court seeking damages
of $200,000 because the city has used streets paved over
land owned by the state of Georgia.
Chattanooga Mayor Robert Kirk Walker said Georgia
does not have legal claim or right to the land “and we will
fully resist such claims.”
Dock Davis, head of the properties Control Commission,
said the city had leased use of the land in the 1920 s from
the Western and Atlantic Railway, which is owned by
Georgia.
He said the lease ran out three years ago and the city
owed Georgia the money for using the roads.
The state filed the suit in order to avoid losing claim to
the land through the statute of limitations.
Three arrested; fourth
sought in auto ring
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (UPI) — Three persons were
arrested and a fourth was being sought Friday in
connection with an auto theft ring operating in four states.
M. J. Vandiver, Division of Investigation agent in
charge of the state auto theft squad, said the ring was
broken in a raid on a Douglas County repair shop.
He said 25 automobiles have been traced to the ring and
a $7,000 boat was also recovered.
Arrested were Carl M. Dodd, 40, of Douglas County;
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Halberstam’s search
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stalks U.S. architects
of Vietnam war
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
SAN FRANCISCO—(NEA)
—David Halberstam has pro
duced in “The Best and the
Brightest,” his chronicle of
the decade leading to and
through the Vietnam con
flict, a withering portrait
series of the men responsi
ble for it.
It has produced an inter
esting backlash from those
portrayed.
“They don’t like it obvi
ously,” he says, behind
thick glasses.
“McGeorge Bundy talked
very condescendingly when
I went to interview him.
After the piece came out
(portions of the book first
appeared in magazines) he
said to his lawyer, ‘I guess
I should really have talked
to him after all.’
“Robert McNamara was
fascinating. After the piece
in Harper’s, essentially the
same as in the book, a friend
of mine asked, ‘Have you
read it?’
“And he said, Yes, I
came home last night, read
the first three pages,
couldn’t bear it and threw
the whole magazine in the
fireplace. Then I began to
cry.’
“Dean Rusk hasn’t read it.
Probably won’t. Walter Ros
tow, who’s portrayed as a
zealot, does not see himself
as a zealot. He’s complained
of his treatment.
Charles Robert Kare, 55, of Atlanta, and Marie Jeannette
Akridge, 32, of Decatur.
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denies eye for profit
ATLANTA (UPI) — A large land owner on Cumberland
Island has denied charges by Gov. Jimmy Carter that he
is trying to reap large profits by subdividing his property
into lots.
Carter charged Robert Monks, 39, of Cape Elizabeth,
Me., is trying to realize larger gains from federal
condemnation.
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“I don’t think Lyndon
Johnson will read it. Lady
Bird probably will.
“I’m told Teddy Kennedy
will not read it. He will
have one or two of his
friends read it and give him
memos on it. Ethel will not
like it because Maxwell Tay
lor is not treated well. The
Kennedys in general do not
come off well in the book.
She was very upset by some
of the pieces I did on Mc-
Namara. Like, ‘How could
you dare write that about
our friend, Bob?’
“My sense is that Gen.
(William) Westmoreland
will not particularly like the
portrait of him, but he will
by and large like the book.
He feels very badly misused
by the civilians, that they
got him out there and all
parachuted out on him.”
But not one has come per
sonally to Halberstam with
his reaction to the portrait.
He shrugs.
“They like to think they’re
above it all.”
Halberstam went to Viet
nam for the New York
Times in 1962 as an eager
28-year-old journalist who
still believed in the essential
justice of United States par
ticipation.
He is 10 years older and
perturbed about it all, and
his feeling has gone into
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writing.
It is more than a stringing
together of portraits. The
project got its genesis from
a magazine profile of Bundy,
the special assistant to the
president for national secur
ity affairs and a key archi
tect of Vietnam policy. Hal
berstam spent three pains
taking months on its prep
aration in early 1969.
"I sensed I was getting on
to something dramatic,” he
remembers, “because it
touched on all the other men
involved. Nobody really
knew anything about them—
just that they were brilliant,
but only in a mythological
sense. Nothing about them
as people.
“But why had these men
who were seemingly the best
and ablest and brightest in
government become the ar
chitects of the worst tragedy
since the Civil War?”
These encompassed, be
sides Bundy, such figures
as McNamara, Rusk, Ros
tow, Taylor, Westmoreland
and, yes, President Johnson.
The answer to the ques
tion, as Halberstam defines
it, comes in two parts: One,
the Department of State was
severely damaged by the
McCarthy period of the
early 1950 s and the Demo
cratic party, in consequence,
did not want to show any
softness on communism;
two, “almost as part of not
showing they were soft,
there was an aggressive,
national American spirit
which these really quite tal
ented men seemed to per
sonify, a belief this was the
American century, Ameri
can values were wanted
throughout the world, good
for them, good for us.”
Professionally, Halber
stam has moved from re
porter to historian, with all
the interpretative connota
tions of the latter role.
“They were immodest
men,” he says. “They really
felt with America’s techno
logical success, we could do
it all. The other side was
small and yellow and we
were big and white and we
had all kinds of goddam air
planes and tanks and all
that.
“We were the first team.
They were going to show
these little ‘Vietnamese’
that by god the first team
was there.”
The young Halberstam
was even infected with a
little bit of that himself. “I
thought we probably ought
to be there and I believed
in it a little bit,” he admits.
“You see your own friends
fighting. Yeah, you kind of
get caught up and romantic.
But within two months, you
find out none of it works.
Then your doubts become in
creasingly profound.”
So did his analyses. His
own immodest calculation
claims a new area of insight
for his book on the Viet
nam debacle:
“They never defined the
troop thing, never defined
the strategy. The civilians
and the military went right
by each other. They didn’t
budget it, didn’t define it,
didn’t bring the Congress in.
Lyndon Johnson wanted the
Great Society and he had to
have the war, too. He didn’t
want the questions asked.
“Those failures are classic
examples of how not to make
decisions.”
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