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Unsung, disproportionately poor and poorly educated, G.I.s have been drifting back from Viet Nam to face unenthusiastic employers and-in the vets' view-sometimes unsympathetic officials of the Veterans Administration. Now the nearly 3,000,000 Vietvets seem to be facing an ungenerous Nixon Administration, which is bent on making budget cuts at what veterans believe to be their expense...
...larger question is whether Bhutto can find a way to hold the country together. Much may depend on whether he continues to pursue the politics of confrontation or instead seeks some form of political conciliation. For the moment, he seems bent on the former. Despite his initial promise to restore democracy to Pakistan, the proposed constitution is clearly designed to preserve dictatorial powers for himself. If he insists on that course, warns Malik Ghulam Jilani, a political leader who fled to London for fear of his life, it will lead to the "demolition of Pakistan, brick by brick and stone...
...Hoving's administration had disposed of important works to raise cash, tried to conceal it and made special arrangements with favored dealers instead of putting pictures up for auction or on the open market. Furthermore, by claiming some of the sold pictures were "superfluous" and "duplicates," the Met bent its standards of taste and scholarship. "In the history of painting there are no duplicates," said Britain's leading journal of art history, the Burlington Magazine, which called Hoving's policy "sinister...
Electronic monitoring and exercise testing has been in use at the School of Public Health and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for several years...
...socialism is the greatest crime in history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc, are consequently enemies of the first magnitude. Vigilant criticism of this is necessary least naive Westerners with a progressive bent be seduced by the Communist siren...