Newsweek - USA (2019-12-06)

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Rewind

“A single incident in a brutal war shocks the American conscience,”
Newsweek reported about the My Lai massacre, which uncovered
“American officers and GIs [who] had deliberately slaughtered scores of South
Vietnamese” during the Vietnam War. “Vivid eyewitness accounts” permeated
the media, but only Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. was indicted. Sentenced to
life, he served only three days in jail after President Nixon changed his
conviction to three years of house arrest. In a similar turn of events, President
Trump just granted pardons to three military men accused of war crimes.

1971

“The political clout that money can exert

raises fundamental issues of equity in

the society,” Newsweek wrote. The

ɿgures for the 19 election “will likely

be $400 million,” a “50 per cent”

increase from 194. The “price of

politics” continues to accelerate, with

proMected presidential election spending

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1969

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The Archives

1993

“Of the 180,000 cases >of breast cancer@

diagnosed in the United States each year,”

10 percent are hereditary, Newsweek

reported. The discovery of %RCA1 (and

shortly thereafter %RCA), the “gene>s@

that causes some kinds of familial breast

cancer,” have profoundly changed the

management of breast cancer today.