conservative array ranging from Ore- gon's Wayne Morse to Georgia's Her- man Talmadge, Dirksen's amendment sailed through, 59 to 34, as did seven other amendments by the Republican leader designed, as he put it, to "apply discipline" to aid administration. From the Senate the battered bill goes to a conference with the House, which only the week before had passed a more liberal measure extending aid for two years without any appreciable cuts. From all indications, the program is still in trouble. The inescapable fact remains that, after the expenditure of $117 billion in U.S. aid over the past two decades, a significant number of Democrats and Republicans in both houses are skeptical of the aims, meth- ods and results of foreign aid in 1966 and beyond. LAUNCHING OF THE "WILL ROGERS" Last of a historic line. CRIME 41 missile-equipped subs with the who as Foreign Relations Committee 2,500-mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear chairman was nominally in charge of 24 Years to Page One energy gives them unparalleled mo- shepherding the bill through the Senate, He was positively identified only 28 bility and almost indefinite sea-keeping charged last week that "we carry the hours after the cruelly mutilated bodies capacity; based in Spain, Guam and big stick, and foreign aid is the car- were discovered in a South Side Chi- Scotland, they patrol up to 60 days rot." Added the Arkansas Democrat: cago apartment. Only 67 hours after each, returning to port to change their "I thought we had outlived Teddy Roo- the crime, Richard Benjamin Speck, 24, 140-man crews. Not surprisingly, the sevelt, but to judge from recent pro- was detained as the prime suspect in Soviet Union has tried to follow suit, nouncements by the President and his the mass murder of eight young nurses is believed to have up to 15 nuclear- Secretary of State, we are moving in on July 14. In the brief interlude be- powered subs; each is equipped with the direction of a policy of 'manifest tween the slayings and the arrest, Speck three 500-mile-range missiles, and in destiny' in Asia." played out a drama almost as incredible all likelihood they can be launched "Asian Doctrine." Fulbright went on as the killings of which he is accused. only from the surface. to charge that the Administration, with- Twice at the height of a fevered hunt The U.S. aims to stay ahead. Last out asking the -advice and consent" of for the killer, Speck was in the grasp week the House of Representatives the Senate, is trying to establish an of Chicago police. Twice in that time voted $300 million for the coming "Asian Doctrine" comparable to the the cops walked away without a glim- year's costs of developing the Poseidon Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemi- mering that the troubled young man on (or C-3) missile, which the Defense sphere. Despite the enthusiastic support their hands was the nation's most want- Department envisions as Polaris' suc- of non-Communist Asian nations for ed suspect. And though on one occa- cessor on the Navy's missile-carrying ambitious U.S.-planned development sion he even told a policeman that his subs. Three feet longer than the 31-ft. projects in the area, the chairman of name was Richard Speck, in the end it Polaris, carrying almost twice its 1.5- the Foreign Relations Committee in- was not a law officer but a young, un- megaton payload, the Poseidon is ex- toned: "One wonders whether anyone armed doctor who recognized Speck pected to be operational in the 1970s. ever thought of asking the Asians if and had him arrested. they really want to join the Great "Man with a Gun." Less than three THE CONGRESS Society." hours after the corpses were discovered, Furious, President Johnson had Press detectives fanning through the neigh- Blades for Aid Secretary Bill Moyers announce the borhood learned from a service-station At a White House dinner last year sharpest rebuttal that his Administra- operator that a man matching a descrip- for an African chief of state, Senate tion has delivered to a congressional tion given by the lone survivor, Philip- G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen rum- critic from either party. "The President pine Exchange Nurse Corazon Amurao, bled to a member of the visitor's Cabi- told me," announced Moyers coldly, had left two bags of clothing there. A net: "Well, now, what are you people "that he finds it very difficult to follow National Maritime Union hiring hall is here for?" Dirksen, who expected the exactly what the Senator is saying in located only a few yards from the nurses' usual pleasantries about seeing your respect to the Government's Asian pol- town house, and detectives, surmising great country," was shocked to hear icies, because it is difficult to square that the murderer might be a seaman, the minister reply instead: "Money." what the Senator says in his speech astutely checked the union office. There, That excess of candor was partly re- with what the Senator has said before." William Neill, local N.M.U. secretary, sponsible for the near emasculation last Predictably, Fulbright joined in beating sifted through the files and came up week of the Administration's $3.4 bil- down, by a vote of 48 to 35, a White with a coin-machine photo of Speck— lion fiscal-1967 foreign aid bill. Con- House-backed amendment that would an ex-convict and sometime merchant vinced, as a result, that the time had have extended most aid for two years, mariner—pinned to a work application. come to tighten up on U.S. largesse instead of one, to facilitate longer-range Twenty-six hours later, two patrol- abroad, Dirksen began his own inves- planning. men answered a call from a sleazy tigation of the program. In his new "Mendicant's Cup." Now it was Dirk- North Side hotel reporting that a Puer- doubts about foreign aid, the Republi- sen's turn. Offering his own amendment to Rican prostitute had told the man- can leader was joined by a dither of to slash $250 million from the Admin- ager: "There's a man up there with a Democrats who in the past have been istration's requested Development Loan gun." The roomer identified himself as ardent champions of aid, but now tend Fund authorization, Dirksen empha- Richard Speck, a name that did not yet to echo William Fulbright's contention sized that he was not suggesting cutting ring a bell with the officers, though they that assistance to far-off nations can funds for Viet Nam: "Everything that had a tentative physical description of lead to U.S. involvement in unplanned is necessary to Viet Nam would be in the suspect. As for the gun, he said that wars—meaning Viet Nam. Fulbright, no wise affected." Backed by a liberal- it belonged to the girl. Though most TIME, JULY 29, 1966 15 policemen would instinctively detain a the fellow the police are looking for. taught Speck in the eighth grade: "He man in such circumstances, the cops Get hold of the police right now." seemed sort of lost. I don't think I merely confiscated the weapon—a .22- Patrolman Alan Schuman, 42, who ever saw him smile. Kids who sat near cal. revolver (the murderer had car- had been guarding another prisoner, re- him often asked to be moved." The ried a "small black pistol"). Hours lat- sponded to the nurse's call. "This," he next year Speck dropped out of the er, police matched up the gun incident marveled, "is the biggest pinch I've ninth grade (the same level at which with the murder man hunt and rushed made in my 19 years on the force." Oswald quit school). back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 Thereafter, police took no chances. Speck's first arrest, at 13, was for minutes earlier. With five stitches in his arm and a trans- trespassing; in all, he was picked up 36 "I Done Something Bad." The next fusion of a quart of blood, Speck was times as a juvenile for offenses ranging night, after making the rounds of Skid transferred under heavy guard the same from drunkenness to burglary. In 1962, Row bars, Speck holed up in a 900-a- night to Bridewell Prison Hospital. In Speck married a pretty, 15-year-old night flophouse on the West Side's Mad- the first confrontation between Miss brunette named Shirley Annette Ma- ison Street under the name of B. Bri- Amurao and Speck in the latter's hos- lone (now remarried), and they had a an. Around 11 o'clock, he shouted to pital room, she pointed a finger at him daughter who was, according to one of his next-door neighbor: "You got to and exclaimed: "That is the man." Speck's sisters in Dallas, his "real love." come and see me. I done something Shortly before, Speck had suffered chest In the bloody Chicago flophouse cubicle bad." The neighbor replied: "You go pains, which were diagnosed as peri- where detectives retrieved Speck's wal- to hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck carditis, an inflammation of the heart let, they found a color picture of a pert stumbling about and peered at him. sac, and his arraignment was postponed. little girl, grinning up at the camera Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to In fact, though notorious for their from the front steps of her house. death." Sprawled on a scabrous mat- rough handling of prisoners in the past, Two Victims. Speck's mother, who tress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck lay Chicago police treated Speck with a lives in tawdry East Dallas, refused to in a pool of blood from a slashed wrist solicitude extended to no other prisoner talk with reporters. But Shirley's moth- in their memory. Bowing to the U.S. Supreme Court's dictum—handed down CHICAGO SUN.TIMRS in the historic Escobedo case, which in- volved the Chicago cops themselves— that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without at- tempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy of the two men convicted of murdering the Clutter family in Hol- comb, Kansas, in 1959. Testifying be- fore the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, Capote reasoned that had the Supreme Court's recent rulings banning forced confessions been in effect at the time of the Clutter kill- ings, the offenders would have gone scot-free. As for Speck, he was speedily visited and informed of his rights by Cook DR. SMITH County Public Defender Gerald Getty, PUBLIC DEFENDER GETTY B, then O-R-N. 53, whose office represents 9,600 in- The plea will be innocent. and arm vein, apparently inflicted with digent defendants a year and who has er told newsmen: "He's crazy when he a broken beer bottle. Called by the defended 402 murder suspects since night clerk, two patrolmen arrived in gets liquor in him." In 1963, three days 1947—not one of whom has been sent before Oswald killed Kennedy, Speck a police van. to the electric chair. Declaring that Death comes routinely in was sent from Dallas to the Texas Peni- the dingy Speck would plead innocent, probably tentiary at Huntsville to start a three- warren of Chicago's Madison Street, on grounds of insanity, Getty served "the street of forgotten men." The cops year term for forgery and burglary. notice that he would need "several Freed on parole, he was jailed a week did not recognize Speck or even take months" to prepare his case. the trouble to identify him correctly. later on charges of assaulting a woman "Sort of Lost." Another intriguing, if with a knife, confessed that he had Leaving the stretcher case in an emer- coincidental, aspect of the case is the gency ward with a young nurse and a meant only to rob her but had fled similarity in background and character when she screamed. Returned to Hunts- resident surgeon, the patrolmen depart- between Speck and Lee Harvey Os- ed and called the station to file a "sick- ville to serve out his term, he was re- wald, President Kennedy's assassin. leased a year ago last month. removal" report. Like Oswald, Speck was brought up "Get the Paper." Last March, Speck showed up in Fortunately for largely by his mother (his father died Monmouth, Ill., where he had spent his headquarters, the resident, Dr. LeRoy when the boy was six). Born in Kirk- Smith, 26, was more alert. "I picked early years. Soon afterward, a 33-year- wood, Ill., on Dec. 6, 1941, Speck, old barmaid was found beaten to death up his head and looked at the nurse to like Oswald, moved to Dallas as a small see in an abandoned hog house; then a if she had noticed," Smith recalled. boy. Speck's mother, like Oswald's, re- 65-year-old widow was bound, robbed "I said to her, 'Get the paper.' " The married and clung grimly to the lower- and raped. According to Police Chief doctor moistened his fingertips, rubbed middle-class fringe of poverty. Speck's blood-caked arm. "I saw the let- Harold Tinder, Speck left town the Like Oswald, who, in the words of night of the latter crime. In late April, ter B. Then I rubbed some more and saw the Warren Commission, "was pro- O-R-N." Recalling news accounts that he shipped out on an iron-ore boat foundly alienated from the world in but was sent ashore after one week to Speck sported a tattoo, "Born to raise which he lived," Speck was from child- undergo an emergency appendectomy hell," Dr. Smith turned to the nurse, hood a stranger to all, filled with strange in Hancock, Mich. There, he made Sandra Hrtanek, 23, and said: "This is hates. Recalled a Dallas teacher who friends with a newly divorced nurse, 16 TIME, JULY 29, 1966 Judy Laakaniemi, 28. Speck dated her that for a glamorous couple with charm- The resolutions and half a dozen floor several times, she told police, who said ing children, life in the White House speeches probably were an embarrass- that he "treated her very nice." was indeed a perennial and public bub- ment to Douglas, but were hardly likely On June 27, during his third voy- ble bath. to lead to an investigation, let alone age, Speck returned to the boat drunk, The extent of Jackie's antipathy to un- the first successful impeachment of a quarreled with an officer and was fired. remitting publicity is recorded by Sal- Supreme Court Justice in the nation's He showed up in Chicago, borrowed inger in a book which is to be pub- history. Nor were they likely to per- $25 from a married sister who lives lished by Doubleday in September and suade the ruggedly individualistic Doug- there, and went to the N.M.U. hall is being serialized meanwhile in Good las—who has served 27 years on the to apply for a berth on a ship headed Housekeeping. The First Lady bom- court—to repeat a half-serious offer to for New Orleans. None was available. barded him with memos, "usually in resign from the bench, tendered to After spending the night in a rooming outrage," protesting "deficiencies in my President Kennedy after his second di- house, he returned, only to be told that efforts to preserve the privacy of the vorce in 1963. His first marriage, to there had been a job but someone else children." One little-known factor with- Mildred Riddle, ended in 1953 after 30 had taken it. Discouraged, Speck took in the Kennedy ménage was the Presi- years and two children; his second, to his two bags and, according to one dent's allergy to animal fur—a handicap Divorcee Mercedes Hester Davidson, version, went to sit in Luella Park, he bore nobly in view of the expansive lasted nine years; his third, to Joan Ca- immediately behind the victims' apart- zoo of dogs, hamsters, ponies and other rol Martin, 26, broke up last December ment. That night he left his bags at pets maintained by the Kennedy chil- after two years, four months. the service station, slept in another dren. One of the hamsters doubtless On to Peking. Douglas met his latest, park. He spent most of his third job- attained rodentian nirvana by drowning the boyishly bobbed Cathleen, at a par- hunting day drinking in a grubby near- in the presidential bathtub. ty in Portland last summer, and on a by tavern, the Ship-Yard Inn. John Kennedy, Salinger recalls, was return visit in December asked the host "Remain Calm." Late that night an at first irked by Jacqueline's ambitious for "the name, telephone number and intruder worked his way into the nurses' and ultimately triumphant campaign to UPI residence, stabbed and strangled eight refurbish the White House in a style of them to death. It still seemed un- consonant with its symbolic and historic believable that the girls had made no stature. He was particularly upset by effort to scream or escape while they his wife's redecoration of the family were being led away, one by one. How- dining room, which he used for break- ever, Survivor Corazon Amurao con- fast meetings with congressional lead- fided one explanation to the Philippine ers. At one of the first sessions in the consul general in Chicago: "Those of restored room, chunky Larry O'Brien, them who were not gagged tried to de- Kennedy's chief congressional liaison cide what to do. All the Filipino girls man (and now Postmaster General), were for fighting for their honor and plunked down on a delicate antique for their survival." But the American chair—and crashed to the floor. "It's a women argued that "maybe if we are good thing that wasn't the President," quiet and calm, he will remain quiet said House Speaker John McCormack. and calm"—possibly because they were A few minutes later Kennedy entered more disciplined to the nurse's creed and seated himself. He, too, wound up of going to almost any length to calm in a pile of priceless splinters. a disturbed patient. As for the slayer's motivation, Dr. Edward Kelleher, director of Chicago's THE SUPREME COURT Psychiatric Institute, noted that "sex September Song maniacs strike out against women rath- "Oo, la, la!" exclaimed Oliver Wen- er than men because of their hatred for dell Holmes to a startled aide who was all women. Very often it is the mother attending him in his study one wintry DOUGLAS & WIFE NO. 4 who is the real object of their intense day. "Young man," explained Mr. Jus- "We don't get much news around here." abomination. In this case, it is con- tice Holmes, then a redoubtable 93, "I address of that terrific gal I met at your ceivable that nurses were chosen as vic- was thinking about walking down the party." In May, he stopped in Portland tims because they represent tender, lov- street with a pretty lady and holding her again—to see Cathy and his dentist, "in ing care and thus are identified with hand behind her husband's back." And that order of importance"—and later motherhood." There may have been an- oo, la, la, generally speaking, was Wash- invited her to join a party at Prairie other motive. Like Oswald, Speck ap- ington's reaction last week to news that Lodge, his remote cabin in Gooseprai- parently suffered from a distorted crav- one of Holmes's most libertarian suc- rie, Wash., in the heart of the Cascade ing for recognition. Once, seeing a cessors on the Supreme Court, William Mountains. Invited to a banquet in Los friend's name in the papers, Speck re- 0. Douglas, 67, had taken as his fourth Angeles earlier this month, Douglas portedly remarked: "One of these days bride blonde, blue-eyed Cathleen Hef- once again invited Cathy along, just in it won't be just a little item with me. fernan, a 23-year-old senior at Port- time for her to be stranded by the air- It will be the whole front page." land's all-girl Marylhurst College. line strike. Said Cathy: "I stayed over Within hours of the week's first ses- three days and I got married." HISTORICAL NOTES sion, members of the House had intro- Back at Prairie Lodge last week, un- duced four resolutions calling for an der the peaks of Baldy and Old Scab, Steam from the Bubble Bath investigation of the thrice-divorced Jus- Douglas and his bride appeared bliss- "I guess," Jacqueline Kennedy told tice's "moral character." Kansas Re- fully unconcerned by the headshaking an aide in 1963, "if Pierre ends up publican Robert Dole charged that on the Potomac. "We don't get much putting me and the children on the Douglas had not only used "bad judg- news around here," drawled Douglas. cover of Look in a bubble bath, I'll ment from a matrimonial standpoint, "On the short-wave radio we can listen have to put up with it." JFK's press but also in a number of 5-to-4 decisions to the broadcasts from the Bureau of secretary, Pierre Salinger, might well of the Supreme Court." Democrat By- Reclamation and Peking." The latter, have concocted such a scheme—and ron Rogers of Colorado suggested that at least, should be worth listening to Mrs. Kennedy was determined to "do the romantic Justice might be retired if Peking approves the Justice's plans, anything to help" the President's cam- under a law allowing for the removal sanctioned last week by the State De- paign for a second term. Nonetheless, of a judge "permanently disabled from partment, to visit Red China with Cathy she could never quite accept the fact performing his duties." this September. TIME, JULY 29, 1966 17