NATION AND WORLD
Officer testifies in CBS libel trial
University Daily Kansan, November 1, 1984
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A Vietnam War intelligence officer testified yesterday in Gen. William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS that communist commanders bungled their orders at the start of the Tet offensive and sent into battle "kids" who threw down their weapons.
Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, who headed the Saigon command's enemy troop estimates division from July 1967 to August 1968, said the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong "would attack in strange ways, when everybody was killed or captured. They had given these weapons to
people who didn't know how to handle them."
GRAMAH SAID THE orders were so confused that an unnamed town near Nha Trang in central South Vietnam, the enemy apparently thought there would be no resistance. They "marched into town as if in a military parade and of course the local troops wiped them out."
Graham also testified that CIA analyst and CBS consultant Samuel Adams was the source of a dispute with the US government on the eye of the crucial offensive.
Adams has published a book and several articles referring to the Saigon command's troop estimates on the eve of the Tet offensive and
how they varied from CIA estimates. The command, headed by Westmoreland, said there were, about 280,000 enemy troops while CIA estimates were close to 600,000.
"The source of this uproar was Sam Adams," Graham said. Adams is a defendant in the landmark case and was a paid CBS consultant in the film "Reports" documentary, "The Uncounted Enemy. A Vietnam Deception."
GEORGE CRILE, THE CBS producer of the broadcast, correspondent Mike Wallace and the network are the other defenders in the case.
The central issue in the Westmoreland trial is the CBS charge that Westmoreland lied about the figures in order to convince President Johnson to commit more U.S. troops to Vietnam.
The Tet offensive began Jan. 30, 1968. Viet Cong forces, with the aid of North Vietnamese troops, attacked 30 provinicial capitals and a series of U.S. and South Vietnamese air bases.
The bloodiest fighting was in Saigon and Hue. On Jan. 31, Viet Cong forces captured the U.S. Embassy in Saigon for six hours. By Feb. 6, the U.S. command reported that 546 U.S. soldiers had been killed and that more than 20,000 communist soldiers were killed.
Guard's husband says security was lax
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The husband of a former Wells Fargo guard testified yesterday security was lax at the terminal where thieves wearing Ronald Reagan masks pulled off the nation's third largest cash heis'
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Joe Retimey, who worked for Wells Fargo Guard Services, a separate division from Wells Fargo Armored, said he had often accomodated the fighter as the Wells Fargo terminal on weekends because *ne feared for her safety*
last Thanksgiving Day.
and testified against the pair
His wife, Marie "Sue" Reitmeyer.
37, of Memphis, is accused of masterminding the $6.6 million robbery with the help of her brother, James Frank Broussard, 41, a retired New Orleans police sergeant who was charged with the Gervais, 39, of Kenner, La, and her estranged husband, Nathan Gervais, 39, of Maitirea, La, pleaded guilty
Joe Reitmeier said the security problems worsened in 1881 when Wells Fargo dropped the third person from the Sunday work crew.
He said he would until his wife entered the building because "they are most vulnerable before they get inside the building."
Breaking up harder on women,prof says
By United Press International
Insomnia, headaches, depression, overeating or loss of appetite are among the signs that breaking up is harder for women, said Robin M. Akert, an assistant professor of psychology at Wellesley College.
BOSTON — Women suffer more than men after a romantic relationship ends, regardless of who calls it quits, according to a new study of college-age adults, a Wellesley College psychology teacher said yesterday.
"And they felt more angry than the men, no matter what role they were in.
"Women are more upset and sad than are men. And that's regardless of what role they held in the breakup. Women felt more guilty, more unhappy, more depressed," she said.
"It seems to me that men and women are different in the way they cope with the reality that the relationship is over. The men are more likely to realize that it is over and move on ahead with their
lives "
The study questioned 344 Boston area college students, aged 18 to 23, in findings reported to the American Psychological Association. Participants were from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College and Boston College.
Eighty-eight percent of the women whose relationships ended at the man's initiation said they suffered physical problems — headaches and other aches and pains, overeating or loss of appetite, and insomnia.
Half of the women who "dumped" their lovers suffered similar symptoms.
"We certainly don't want to say the men aren't upset." Akert said. Seventy six percent of the men left by women reported problems, while only 26 percent of the men who ended relationships suffered. But problems in eating — eating too much or not enough — were especially noted as problems women suffer more than men.
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