Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marvin's Maid? What the Lee Marvin decision [April 30] boils down to is that he has to pay $104,000 in back wages for a domestic...
...South Africa The childishness of the U.S. aerial espionage operation in South Africa was only surpassed by the Carter Administration's unwarranted retaliatory expulsion of two members of the South African military mission in Washington, and the statement that "the State Department flatly refused to deny the charges" [April 23]. May we conclude that the U.S. emphatically insists on being guilty? Since when is it the prerogative of the Carter Administration to decide who should join the nuclear club...
Bring Viet Nam Closer As a Vietnamese of French nationality who has lived in France for 25 years, I think the best way to forget Viet Nam [April 23] and the pain of the war is, paradoxically, to normalize relations with Viet Nam, to help rebuild its too fragile economy. In your conscience you know that the misery is caused by your destruction of this poor, small country. The farther away you get from Viet Nam, the more it remains in your mind and heart as a kind of reproach and remorse...
George III Kept His Head Re your account of the Reign of Terror [April 23]: perhaps the reason the "American Revolution was a notable exception" to the usual postwar "period of vengeance and terror" is that it was not a revolution. To be a revolution, an armed rebellion must overthrow the central government and replace it with a new system of government. The Americans successfully established a republic not by overthrowing a government but by kicking out a colonial administration. George III kept his head, and Lord North lived to see the early stages of the French Revolution...
...force is the average American's desire to climb into his auto and take off, regardless of revolutions in Iran, soaring gasoline prices or presidential appeals to drive less. Gasoline demand has increased 3% since last year. No decrease at all has been noticeable since President Carter in April called on every motorist to reduce driving by 15 miles a week...