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...Monday the Committee submitted its proposal to the stockholders, who approved it. Normally the stockholders ten men who nominally hold the Coop stock in trust-have the power to change the by-laws themselves, but any amendment which alters the relationship between management and the members must also be ap-proval by a favorable majority of at least 25 per cent of the members...
...when a loan company sought to begin recovery of a debt from Christine Sniadach of Milwaukee by taking $31.59 from her $65 weekly pay, she ap pealed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help. Wisconsin's garnishment statute, similar to those in 16 other states, allows a creditor to tie up as much as 50% of a salary earner's wages even before a debt has been proved. Often, far more than a weekly bite is involved; the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers fire between 100,000 and 300,000 workers each year...
...side were the critics of the current conduct of the war. Their first volley was fired by Senator Edward Kennedy two weeks ago when he condemned the series of assaults up Ap Bia as "both senseless and irresponsible." Senator George McGovern agreed, and last week in a Memorial Day address Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield suggested that critics had not merely the right but also the duty to question the progress of the war. "Areas are won and lost many times," said the majority leader. "Lives are lost but once...
...recent week, the Communists make 211 attacks, the grim toll of 453 U.S. dead is the result. But, asked a newsman, was Hamburger Hill an example of a U.S. attack or a Communist assault? The North Vietnamese had been sitting more or less quietly on top. of Ap Bia when the 101st discovered them and moved to dislodge them. Ap Bia, replied the adviser, fell into a "gray area"-it was one of the few times in the war when the U.S. had been able to make opposing troops fight when they had not chosen...
...question remains whether the right kind of pressure was presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close before ascertaining how many Communists were dug in atop the mountain. Perhaps the peak should have been more thoroughly blasted by air and artillery bombardment before the soldiers assaulted it. But, says one officer...