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...hearing the news, Campbell's father Len, 54, of Bettendorf, Iowa, started an epic one-man campaign to win his son's freedom. An imposing, 6-ft. 6-in. man who works as a parts Inspector at an International Harvester tractor plant, Len Campbell first prodded the State Department to negotiate for his son's release. Officials told him of the U.S. Government's policy of not bargaining directly with or paying ransom to terrorists, but assured him that everything possible was being done. This was not enough for Campbell, who now says: "I never thought...
...contact with the rebels. Harrell returned to his family in Milwaukee. With his Ethiopian wife, Steve Campbell flew home to Bettendorf and exulted: "I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. I had no idea there could be so much love." But all the battles that Len Campbell had fought left him weary and cynical. As he said: "I feel like I've been dragged through a sewer pipe and met all the rats along...
...failure to do so would almost certainly mean a continued double-digit inflation that erodes worker purchasing power faster than pay raises can keep up with it -the disease that has forced British governments into stop-go cycles of inflation and recession since the early 1960s. Exclaimed T.U.C. Chief Len Murray: "It is the best news for many a long day in Britain." Healey credited the agreement to public exasperation with inflation: "People got sick and tired of being paid in confetti...
Differing with Healey are such key labor leaders as Jack Jones, chief of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and Len Murray, T.U.C. general secretary. They insist that a 5% limit is feasible, provided it is matched by import controls and strict regulation of prices. But the government is opposed to curbs on imports, believing quite rightly that they would only provoke retaliation by other nations and choke off any chance that Britain has of an export-led recovery. Healey also wants to loosen rather than tighten price controls to give British industry sufficient profits to invest more heavily...
Friendly Fire is not another self-righteous lamentation about the U.S.'s tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles...