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Carter had no sooner issued his proclamation-and signed Executive Order No. 1-than he was vehemently attacked, both by those who thought him too soft and those who thought he was too tough. The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars claimed that the decision was an affront to American fighting men who had done their duty by serving in Viet Nam. Carter's act, Senator Barry Goldwater declared, was "the most disgraceful thing that a President has ever done...
...Philadelphia epidemic affected 151 other persons, primarily members of the American Legion, attending a convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia...
Jimmy Carter has nothing to lose by declaring a universal, unconditional amnesty. Groups like the VFW and the American Legion, who are adamantly opposed to any form of amnesty, will probably protest even if Carter proclaims only a partial amnesty or "pardon." But a limited amnesty would generate protests indefinitely among the excluded victims of the Vietnam tragedy. It would certainly subvert any goal of reconciliation...
...with the deadly malady. The physicians had assembled in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel not as an act of reckless bravado but to exchange all the latest information about the cause of the ailment that left 29 people dead and struck 151 others last summer after an American Legion convention at the hostelry...
...truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion adventure called March or Die. His horse was frightened by a camel...