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Lime Showers. The Congressmen hired as interpreter Don Luce, 35, an American who had spent six years in Viet Nam with organizations such as the Y.M.C.A. and the Boy Scouts. A strong opponent of the war, he has been working for the World Council of Churches since 1967. Luce had detailed information from former inmates on conditions at Con Son, and what he and the Congressmen really wanted to see were the French-built "tiger cages," the maximum-security block where some 400 hard-core political prisoners, including women, were reported suffering gruesome mistreatment...
Despite efforts by their U.S. guide and the South Vietnamese prison commandant to keep them away, the Congressmen found what they were looking for: two low-slung buildings containing 80 windowless cells with bars in the ceilings. Luce and the Congressmen described the cells, each of which held three to five prisoners, as 5 ft. by 9 ft., though U.S. officials insist they are 12 by 15. Buckets of lime lined the catwalk. The commandant claimed they were to whitewash the walls, but the prisoners shouted through the bars that the lime was dumped on them as a disciplinary measure...
...broad range of social problems, if need be in ways that temporarily retard profits. Fletcher L. Byrom, chairman of Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., finds the idea that business exists only to make a profit as unsatisfactory as "saying that the function of living is to breathe." Charles F. Luce, chairman of metropolitan New York's Consolidated Edison, argues that managers must directly concern themselves with "whether Negroes and Puerto Ricans have decent jobs and housing and education." B.R. Dorsey, president of Gulf Oil, goes as far as to say that "The first responsibility of business is to operate...
...sneer at the "American Proposition," the belief that the U.S. must live up to a special act of providence, which was John Courtney Murray's scholarly elaboration of "God's country." And yet this fierce sense of a special American destiny is where Murray -and Henry R. Luce-meet the radicals. Radicals make demands on America that could only be fulfilled by an extraordinary nation, by a nation straining against the limits of history, even of human nature. At their best, they call us beyond the ordinary life of nations, beyond the averages of a little compromise...
...signed one to train 1,000 auto mechanics at its dealerships. Of Zenith Radio Corp.'s trainees, 28% have dropped out since the program started last July, and another 61% have been laid off. "Should there be a further downturn in the economy," said Leonard F. Luce, Zenith's director of Equal Opportunity Programs, "it will be necessary to lay off the balance of those still with us." Many firms reported that the layoffs were simply a matter of older workers bumping out trainees under union contract rules...