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...done this horrendous thing? The structure of the play is like that of a trial in which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels. He has a loveless marriage with a wife he has not even kissed in six years. He pores over pictures of Greek gods...
September 16: Ford tells a press conference that there was "very persuasive evidence" that Nixon committed impeachable crimes. But he defends his "full, free and absolute" pardon of Nixon, saying it will heal America's wounds. He announces a plan of conditional amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers, requiring most to perform alternate service for two years--"earned re-entry," he calls it. He says that CIA subversion of the Allende government was in Chile's best interest, "and certainly in our best interest." He indicates such activity will continue in other countries...
...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...
...President insisted that reports of Nixon's ill health were not a major factor ("I was more anxious to heal the nation"). He conceded that new negotiations were under way with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski on the controversial arrangement under which Nixon would retain effective control of his tapes and presidential papers. As for the pardon, however, "there was no understanding, no deal, between me and the former President." Ford admitted that "the decision has created more antagonism than I anticipated...
...when Mao Tse Tung came to power in 1949, he renewed the interest in traditional Chinese medicine. His popular maxim "Heal the wounded, rescue the dying, practice revolutionary humanitarianism" applied literally to acupuncture and traditional medicine as well as figuratively to Chinese society...