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...Indian treatment. Wounded Knee bleeds and festers with an indignant discontent indicative that change is needed, and needed quickly. Violence can never be condoned, but something must be tremendously awry in our society if only through violence can minorities progress out of poverty and ignorance. If America does not heal its Wounded Knee, it will become crippled for life...
...Center and a medical investigator at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Syracuse, has already succeeded in stimulating regeneration in laboratory animals and has begun trying to apply his technique to humans. Becker has started a series of tests aimed at producing bone growth in patients with recalcitrant, or non-healing, fractures. His work could lead to new and faster ways to heal broken bones, and may someday even be used to replace tissue destroyed by disease...
Today the Algerians minimize Fanon's role in their victory. They have all but made him a nonperson in the land he struggled for. Yet his early and passionate assertion that black culture is beautiful, as well as his later preaching that the oppressed can heal their souls through the cathartic effect of revolutionary violence, posthumously turned Fanon into a hero for some white radical theorists and some American blacks...
Kerry asserted that the granting of amnesty does not deny a belief in the law. He said that the act would heal divisions within the country...
...there is another question: should we grant ourselves amnesty? Clearly we ought not to spend all our time musing on those Nixon, Johnson and the rest have murdered in our name. Although Nixon is wrong, as usual, in saying that it takes two to heal a wound--wounds heal by themselves or not at all--we probably shouldn't irritate those that won't require amputation. It is right and proper, for example, that we should welcome our returning prisoners, for they too have suffered, whatever suffering they inflicted...