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...President Ford last week unveiled his program to permit Viet Nam War evaders and deserters to earn their way back into U.S. society, he termed it "an act of mercy to bind the nation's wounds and to heal the scars of divisiveness." But the wounds bled anew. Leaders of veterans' organizations immediately denounced the plan as "a gross injustice" to those who had served, died, and suffered. Members of war resisters' groups assailed it as a "punitive" assault upon men who had been guilty only of "premature morality." Yet Ford's plan, an extremely complex...
...data. But the cordial atmosphere is occasionally clouded by acrimony. Last week, for the third time in a decade, the scientific cold war between the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Soviet Union's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, near Moscow, erupted anew. As before, the argument was over who had been first to manufacture the latest manmade* element...
...sooner had Ford made his broadcast remarks than the nation ?which had been caught totally by surprise?was plunged anew into deep and divisive debate. Republicans generally applauded the President's action; Democrats generally condemned it (see following story). Supporters agreed with Ford that his predecessor had indeed "suffered enough." Critics, including many legal experts, charged that Ford had established a dual system of justice, that he had put Richard Nixon above the law. On all sides, there were grave questions about the ways in which the pardon would affect the men currently jailed or awaiting trial for Watergate...
...Casablanca James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...
...always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses of the captive Hebrews, which had been daubed with the blood of a lamb. At the end of the feast, the ancient hope would be toasted anew as the celebrants pledged reunion in the land of their fathers: "L'shanah haba-ah Birushaliyim!"-"Next year in Jerusalem...