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Ethiopia's case is the saddest ot all because many of the deaths could have been avoided. Last January, when officials brought word of imminent starvation among peasants to one provincial governor, he disciplined them for their "negative attitude." He also refused to press Addis Ababa for aid, for fear of embarrassing a government that was pushing tourism. The result was widespread starvation and an initial reluctance on the part of international agencies to send food; U.N. officials assumed that Ethiopia was suffering far less than the Sahel states...
Several Congressional leaders reacted last night ot President Nixon's abolition of the special prosecutor's office and the firing of Archibald Cox '34 with calls for Nixon's impeachment...
...same steel and glass skyscraper where he has worked for the past five years, Federal Judge Otto Kerner sat rigidly before a packed, expectant courtroom, waiting to hear the verdict on himself. As befits a successful and distinguished man, a major general in the National Guard, twice Governor ot Illinois he looked calm and controlled. He searched the faces of the jury-seven men and five women, including housewives and hand laborers-who all avoided his gaze. The foreman said that the jury had reached a verdict, after 16 hours of deliberation, and he handed a sealed envelope...
Otto Kerner, 64, was convicted ot bribery conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury. He could receive a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison and a fine of $93,000. The verdict stemmed from a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted $140,000 in profits in exchange for helping a track owner obtain a longer season and permission to expand into harness racing. It represented the conviction not just of a politician...
...President has not yet announced any details ot his plan-last year he talked of a $7.5 billion program for all of Indochina over a five-year period, but the Administration is now deliberately vague about who would get what, whether it would be direct bilateral aid or part of a multinational reconstruction effort. Much is still up in the air: Indochina remains unsettled, fighting continues, and the rest of the American P.O.W.s must be returned...