Word: antiwar
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...Carter spirit quickly spread through the Administration. At the Justice Department, Attorney General Griffin Bell unlocked the massive steel doors of the main entrance for the first time since the antiwar demonstrations during the Nixon Administration. Carter explained that they had been locked "because of a chasm that developed between our Government and many of our people" and had become "a symbolic separation of both disaffected and disadvantaged people from the core of justice...
...answered after a moment's reflection. "I'm sorry, but I'm not." He plunged immediately and vigorously into his work. Within a day he had issued his first Executive order, pardoning all Viet Nam-era draft evaders who were not involved in violent antiwar acts (see story page 15). He also issued a statement urging Americans to save energy by turning down their thermostats to 65° F. in the daytime and even lower at night. Carter found time to select the desk he will use in the Oval Office: made of oak timbers from...
...STIGMA. The Ford commission placed the number of servicemen given less-than-honorable discharges solely for desertion or absence from their posts at 83,135. Of these, only 13,589 asked that their cases be reviewed; all but about 1,000 were given clemency discharges. To many of the antiwar veterans, that discharge carries a stigma they still want erased by a blanket amnesty. Lack of an honorable discharge often bars ex-servicemen from jobs, and generally deprives them of military pensions, Government medical aid and educational benefits...
...from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former U.S. pilots to give...
...press. On May 9, 1969, the New York Times reported the secret bombing of Cambodia. That same day the FBI started a series of wiretaps that ultimately monitored the telephones of 13 Government officials and four newsmen for various periods of time until February 1971. Halperin, an antiwar holdover from the Johnson Administration, was one of those under suspicion. Within nine months, in fact, he decided to quit. But not until the Watergate disclosures came gushing forth in 1973 did he learn that for 21 months the FBI had eavesdropped on him, his wife and three young sons for "national...