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...Richard Nixon's Washington, drug abuse has reached crisis priority. Heroin addiction mounts appallingly among American soldiers in Viet Nam; each returned planeload of G.I.s adds to the drug malaise at home. Once confined to black urban ghettos, the disease has come to invade the heartland of white, middle-class America. In the judgment of some soberminded politicians, the spread of heroin addiction could have the effect of precipitating an American pullout from Southeast Asia. The President moved last week to head off any such repercussions, declaring a "national emergency" and initiating the most intensive antidrug program yet undertaken...
Still, there is a growing confluence of interests, particularly within Europe's industrialized heartland. After World War II, many countries in the area underwent the shattering upheaval of a switchover from rural-to urban-dominated societies. At the same time, they experienced a baby boom that has given West Germany an under-18 population of 28%, England 29%, France 30%. Today problems of urban blight, restless youth, insufficient housing and environmental pollution hit Europe's urban centers with comparable force, particularly the four major "conurbations" -London with its 11.5 million inhabitants, Paris with 8,000,000, the Rhine...
Last Tuesday night, four days after the first anniversary of the murders at Jackson State, Vice President Agnew addressed a $100-a-plate Republican dinner in Jackson. Speaking "in the heartland of the old Confederacy... as an American who loves and would preserve our country's free institutions-to his fellow Americans who love and would preserve our country's free institutions" from "the opportunism of the new demagogues and actions of the New Left street gangs," Agnew began his speech by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen: It's good to be back in Jackson." Much was said in the twenty...
ADAM AT 6 A.M. also concerns itself with youth and Middle America. The son of upper-middle-class parents, Adam flees his plush Los Angeles home for a summer in the heartland. He winds up in Missouri, where he gets a job with a road gang and meets one of those teenage girls (Lee Purcell) who favor pink and pigtails, and announce with pride: "I was valedictorian of my high school class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them...
...heartland, which is supposed to be Nixon country, withstood the President's campaigning. One of the few important Republican scores in the Midwest was the Ohio Senate race, in which Robert Taft Jr. eked out a narrow victory over Howard Metzenbaum. The seat presently belongs to Democrat Stephen Young. But in yet another example of ticket-splitting, Ohio elected Democrat John Gilligan to succeed a retiring Republican Governor...