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THREE AMERICAN servicemen have just returned from the prisons of North Vietnam. While these freed POWs journeyed home, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird refused to rule out the possibility of court-martialing the airmen for statements they made in captivity. Concurrently, Ambassador William Porter, the chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, warned the North Vietnamese that such releases of prisoners were an impediment to the peace talks. These very recent assertions fly in the face of recurrent charges by the Nixon Administration that Senator George McGovern has turned his back on the POWs. As The New York Times commented, "The implication...
...same topic (centering around the original charges made by McGovern). John Connally talks campaign money and Democrats-for-Nixon, but nothing else. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney travels to Pennsylvania and engages in political mud-slinging with Democratic Governor Milton Shapp. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird issues "white-flag" charges that explain nothing and allow him to evade intelligent discussion of rising defense costs...
...President Nixon's authority to induct men under the Selective Service System explros 30 and he has indicated that he will not ask to have it extended," schendel said. "Also (Secretary of Defense Molvia) Laird has expressed hope that there will be no draft calls...
...Laird's hope is realized men born in 1953 would not face induction regardless of their lottery number or classification. The ceiling on draft calls for men born in 1952 is lottery number...
...illustration of the style now in favor, neither the President nor his press secretary responded to Ramsey Clark's broadcast from Hanoi accusing the U.S. of bombing the dikes (see story, page 16). The counterattack was delegated to Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. "We have to watch out that the kick-'em-in-the-nuts urge doesn't become so great that we give in to it," says a White House aide known for some expert kicking in his time...