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...Basel) in the 14th and 15th centuries. The reproductions are excellent (the original is locked up in Lucerne), the drawings are imaginative and the world depicted is very odd. A murder trial consisted of holding the accused's right hand over the corpse of the victim. If the hand bled, the man was guilty and was drawn and quartered. All shown in living color. Through...
...President Ford last week unveiled his program to permit Viet Nam War evaders and deserters to earn their way back into U.S. society, he termed it "an act of mercy to bind the nation's wounds and to heal the scars of divisiveness." But the wounds bled anew. Leaders of veterans' organizations immediately denounced the plan as "a gross injustice" to those who had served, died, and suffered. Members of war resisters' groups assailed it as a "punitive" assault upon men who had been guilty only of "premature morality." Yet Ford's plan, an extremely complex...
Corruption does not usually increase fighting tenacity, as it did for the Saigon troops; they killed 300 Communist soldiers. More often Saigon's fighting effort is being bled by industrious attempts to make a buck out of the war, according to a secret report by psychological-warfare officers that was recently submitted to President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Devastating-impeachable," rum bled New Jersey's Charles Sandman, who had been the President's most vocal champion on the committee; now he finally found the "specificity" he had declared lacking in the evidence. When he learned of the news, Iowa's mild-mannered Mayne declared that "the President has today admitted deceiving the American people, the Judiciary Committee and his own lawyer. This is direct evidence...
...determined to fight hard for higher pay for its 700,000 members. The union's goals appeal to municipal employees, especially policemen, who resent laws restricting the right of public servants to be on strike. Said one Baltimore cop with 17 years on the force: "I've bled for this city. I've been through riots and fires, but the people don't seem to care. Well, it's time they gave something back...