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...attack him. Said Robb: "It's clear that President Reagan is very popular." At least as much an issue was another President, almost 13 years out of office. The late Lyndon B. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was also the father of Robb's wife Lynda Bird. Her mother, Lady Bird, gave $25,410 to the campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements...
...women who served in Viet Nam make a case against the VA as well. Their chief organizer in Washington is Lynda Van Devanter, 34, a nurse lieutenant who labored in an evacuation hospital in Pleiku in 1969-70. "Women veterans are the last minority," she says...
...counseling program; assisting the vets in finding jobs; requiring the VA to determine if the vets will get help for problems related to the herbicide Agent Orange; and extending the time that they can use the G.I. Bill, now limited to ten years from discharge. Sums up Lynda Van Devanter, 33, a surgical nurse who served in Viet Nam in 1972: "Viet Nam was hell, and anyone who has been through hell needs some help...
Scott ruled that the girls-Lynda McNeal, Michelle LaBorde and Ramona Carbo-could get public school credit for the past semester only if they finish the year at Jones Street. When Lee asked that they be allowed to stay longer at Buckeye, Scott replied: "I don't think you can ask any more from this court, and it won't give any more." For most of the 100 spectators packed into the court and the 300 demonstrators outside, this Louisiana compromise was not much to cheer about...
Last week as they returned from Christmas vacation, the three found themselves caught up in a blizzard of nationwide publicity. No longer were they merely Ramona Carbo, 12, Lynda McNeal, 13, and Michelle LaBorde, 13. Suddenly they were the Buckeye Three...