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Sack swallows these abstractions whole, yet the characters in his book are concrete enough, and very real indeed. Varoujan Demirgian is an ex-G.I. in Viet Nam who thought he had a problem-he was there for a year, says Sack, without ever killing a Communist. Robert Melvin is a black Viet veteran now totally committed to working his way up the executive ladder at a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Another black, Vantee Thompson, came home from search-and-destroy missions to find himself on riot-control duty in Baltimore, his own people becoming as hard to understand...
...series of what Agnew Press Secretary J. Marsh Thompson calls "heart-to-heart talks." Reston, unable to secure a private interview with Richard Nixon since the Oregon primary in 1968, has used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact is that the Nixon Administration...
...Melvin H. Evans, 56, of the Vir gin Islands, a former physician and a Republican who was appointed to of fice by President Nixon before winning the islands' first gubernatorial election...
...Melvin Maddocks...
That, however, did not inhibit the combative Victor Gold, Agnew's former press secretary and still a close associate. Gold put the blame for the stories squarely on Alexander Haig and Melvin Laird, Nixon's two top aides, who he said were following a familiar White House pattern in trying to undermine the Vice President as Nixon's most likely successor in 1976. Said Gold: "First we had Haldeman and Ehrlichman; now we have Haig and Laird; next we'll have Sonny and Cher...