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...spent most of 1968 lurching between alcoholic numbness?he was drinking a fifth a night?and the surreal alertness of hunt-and-kill missions. At his tour's end, he was captured by the Viet Cong and held for 2½ years. Abruptly, in the spring of 1971, he was freed. His homecoming was "devastating." The American air was dense with hostility. Outside a veterans' hospital in New York City, Mitchell was pushed
...N.A.A.C.P. delegates that federal programs had enslaved blacks instead of helping them. Said the President: "Many in Washington over the years have been more dedicated to making needy people Government dependent, rather than independent. They've created a new kind of bondage. Just as the Emancipation Proclamation freed black people 118 years ago, today we need to declare an economic emancipation." Reagan's essential message: blacks will progress financially only when the entire economy improves. "Rebuilding America's economy is an absolute moral imperative if we're to avoid splitting this society in two, with class...
...Socialists exposed themselves to any criticism at all? The Socialists' spectacular victory in legislative elections had given them 289 of the 491 seats in the Assembly and freed them of any dependence on Communist votes. Indeed, the number of Communist seats had crashed from 86 to a humiliating 44, the lowest number in more than a decade. There were two main reasons for Mitterrand's action. First, he wanted to secure the cooperation of the country's largest trade union, the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), which is controlled by the Communists. Second, a role...
Bishop Dominic Tang was the pivotal man in the Vatican's hopes for a diplomatic bridgehead in Communist China. The government not only freed him from prison last year but recognized him as head of the Canton diocese. Tang later went to Rome, and Pope John Paul II named him permanent Archbishop of Canton. But Archbishop Tang had barely reached Hong Kong before Peking stripped him of office. China Daily complained that in receiving a papal appointment, Tang had violated the independence and dignity of the autonomous Chinese church. Now he is only a bishop-in-exile...
...TRIO--Zod, Ursa, and Non--are none other than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...