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...supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote Nixon: "We are ten and eleven years old and afraid to grow up in America if a murderer is considered a hero...
...hope that justice is not blind in the case of the "Billboard Bandits" [March 22] in Michigan. My verdict would be to "punish" the youths by nominating them for the Golden Fox Award being sponsored by Environmental Action, Inc., and to "sentence" the state highway officials to comply with the law by removing the remainder of the illegally situated billboards...
...zesty raids near Chicago last fall, an environmental guerrilla dubbed "the Fox" enraged polluters and entranced citizens by stopping up factory chimneys, plugging sewers and sloshing corporate offices with smelly river muck (TIME, Oct. 5). Still uncaught, the Fox recently gained an equally anonymous ally: "The Billboard Bandit," a single-minded commando devoted to beautifying the roadside near Monroe, Mich...
Legal Conundrum. Last week the crime was apparently solved, but not before four more billboards bit the dust along Interstate 96 north of Ann Arbor, Mich. Arrested by suspicious police, who spotted an ax and a saw in the back of their car, six Ann Arbor high school boys readily admitted that they were billboard bandits. All excellent students, the bandits include the president of the senior class at Huron High School, a member of the senior executive board, a member of the student council and a debater who most recently distinguished himself by his analysis of Government anti-pollution...
...engaged in the nation's defense boggled outside observers, it little surprised Swedes. Military officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...