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...final long days of anticipation. In gathering material for this week's cover story on the returning P.O.W.s, TIME correspondents waited out the difficult hours with a number of the families, while staffers on the other side of the world watched the preparations to care for the first freed servicemen...
...Tethered mines will be cut from their cables by a severing wire pulled along by a low-flying helicopter. The freed mines will then float to the surface, where they can be harmlessly detonated by gunfire...
...among others. At 30, hottest freelance in business. Discovered both Tiny Tim and Captain Beefheart. Conceives albums in manner of Hollywood director. Added drum crescendos that give Simon's You're So Vain special contemporary sound. Has loved pop music ever since he attended one of Alan Freed's rock-'n'-roll shows as a kid in Brooklyn in 1954. Earnings from sales and royalty percentages are well into six figures a year (last year: about $250,000). Sometimes agrees to take a lower percentage if a record fails to rise...
AMERICANS SHOULD confront their own past and realize how violence has removed obstructions to social change. Armed struggle freed America from colonial servility, liberated the slaves and mid-wifed the birth of the labor movement. Although violence was not exclusively seen as a tactic by which to achieve progres, it certainly played a progressive role in our past. (The Vietnamese understand our history: their 1945 announcement that they would no longer accept colonial status is patterned after the American Declaration of Independence...
Solitude passes from master to master like a pliant zombie. She and other slaves become, as one wise old black says, "puppets in the white man's dream." When the French Revolution reaches Guadeloupe, the slaves are freed and the plantations burned. But in 1802 a treaty between France and England reopens the seas to the sugar trade, and bondage returns. Eventually Solitude joins the scattering of rebels, hunts her hunters in a trance of fury and becomes something of an island legend...