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Those acts of escalation, embodied in daily waves of U.S. bombers aimed at Hanoi's heartland over a period of two weeks, had left the capital of North Viet Nam a stricken city, rapidly emptying of people, without electricity and in some places water, many of its streets and even whole quarters smashed and cratered by the ferocity of daily U.S. bombing raids. Once neat one-story houses lay flattened or lurched at odd angles, roofless and windowless. On one street, a young worker in a red helmet stared numbly into a pit that was once his home...
Hobson grew up in segregation's heartland, Birmingham, the son of a shopkeeper and a schoolteacher. As a pilot in World War II, he flew 35 missions over Europe and won three Bronze Stars. After the war he earned an engineering degree at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and a master's degree in economics at Howard University. He then spent 20 years as a Government employee, ending up as an economist with the Social Security Administration before turning his attention full time to the problems of Washington's black community...
...cities. Yet it is in the smaller towns and countryside, where 60% of the nation's 60 million people live, that the election will be largely decided. Typical of that quiet majority are the citizens of Limburg on the Lahn, a town of 21,000 in the geographic heartland of West Germany, 40 miles from Frankfurt. Relatively rich, traditionally conservative, proud of its 1,000-year history, Limburg (not to be confused with the province in Holland that is the home of the Limburger cheese) accurately reflects the central theme of the campaign so far: an overriding concern about...
...NIXON'S OPPONENT were another man of corrupted sensibilities, we could rightfully despair. But George McGovern is a decent man. Pitted against a President who spins lies and breaks lives with extravagance, McGovern, despite the claims of his opponent, emerges as a sober and honest representative of the American heartland...
...France should assume its "proper place" as the political nerve center of the Common Market; London will become the financial center; Brussels is to remain the capital for "bread and butter" EEC problems like agriculture and tariffs; and West Germany will continue to be the Community's industrial heartland, with some vague status as commercial gateway to Eastern Europe. The other six nations will play "important roles" that are yet to be defined...