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Sunday morning, the wounds of the last night seemed to be on the mend. It was another sunny day, as most of the week had been. In the basement, Ross Flanagan was re-grouping some people for a protest at Ann Arbor churches. The last service was over. Many of the people were on their way home, but those gathering now had one more protest to make. The city's churches had obtained a court injunction to prevent protestors from disrupting their services by handing out a statement to the morning worshippers, protesting "the resort to police power, whether...
...column has made its appearance in ten California student newspapers. The heavyweight byline: Ronald Reagan. But the column may not be there long-however much the Governor needs to mend his fences with young voters. The byline was by far the most interesting part of the first column of answers to student questions. One reason, perhaps, was that Reagan had not bothered to look at the questions or even his replies. "We draw his answers from past speeches and statements," acknowledged a state information officer. "But if the students came up with a real doozy of a question, we would...
Florida officials are reviewing nearly 400 projects from industrial plants to marinas, some of which may be halted until the builders mend their ways. The state has filed suit against three developers who are draining pine and cypress swamps along the northern border of Everglades National Park. Such work, claims the suit, interrupts the natural flow of water through the wilderness area and upsets food chains. Furthermore, says the assistant attorney general, this kind of activity contributed to the twelve-month drought that recently turned much of southern Florida into a tinderbox swept by stubborn fires...
...back all of Quang Nam's refugees. Even then, one wonders about the people. Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped up in their tin sheds, the more the fabric will unravel...
...more experienced diplomatically than Nixon's initial choice, Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch. Some U.S. observers nonetheless deplored the fact that Nixon had not sent Secretary of State William Rogers. It was Rogers who devised the cease-fire that Nasser accepted in August, and his presence might have helped mend the fractured relations between the U.S. and the Arabs. As one observer put it: "The Arabs forgive everything in their grief, you know...