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...York Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, and the reporting from Attica was done by a trio of correspondents. James Willwerth went to the prison when the uprising started. Having covered the Newark riots, been gassed at the 1968 Chicago disorders and spent a year in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic tragedy. Those of us waiting outside finally realized that it would end only with the counting of the dead." Willwerth was joined by Mary Cronin and Leonard Levitt, who helped reconstruct what had happened behind...
...Indeed, it looked for a few months last year as if Meany might lead a contingent of labor into the waiting arms of Richard Nixon. Meany and the executive council of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had been staunchly supporting the President's policies in Viet Nam. Even when Nixon invaded Cambodia, Meany came to his defense...
...Congratulations are in order for Mr. Nixon on his latest diplomatic coup-getting himself an invitation to Peking. I hope Mr. Nixon's "Journey for Peace" will also take him to Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, for that is where the fighting is-not China...
...talks have been deadlocked. The first sign of some progress came with the seven-point Communist proposal, which coupled the demand for a set U.S. withdrawal deadline to the gradual release of those P.O.W.s captured in South and North Viet Nam, but not those seized in Laos or Cambodia. To many critics of the Administration, it seemed that Nixon was missing a chance to end the impasse, since the Communists were at last offering a formula for dealing with the difficult prisoner question. Bruce tried for several weeks to pry more details of the plan out of the Communists...
What do Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Premier Lon Nol of Cambodia and Columnist James Reston of the New York Times have in common with uncounted, unknown Asians? All have recently undergone acupuncture, the ancient Chinese practice of inserting needles into various parts of the body to treat a catalogue of ills from arthritis to impotence. The prominence of these patients, and displays of acupuncture for the benefit of American visitors to mainland China, have increased interest in the treatment without diminishing its mystery...