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...your Letters column concerning the question of an Unknown Soldier [Aug. 14], Dr. O'Hara reports having viewed what he calls "a collection of unidentified remains" in Tan Son Nhut mortuary in Viet Nam and speculates that the bodies or partial remains of men reported missing in action may have been among them. What Dr. O'Hara writes is true: there have been and still are a small number of unidentified partial remains at Tan Son Nhut. However, the macabre image that Dr. O'Hara conjures up is thoughtlessly cruel to the families of men missing...
...this is a partial answer to yet another puzzling question about the affair: Why did McGovern and his staff fail to check Eagleton's background more carefully? Both the candidate and his aides were busy with other things in the important period between McGovern's California primary victory and nomination night five weeks later: winning the California credentials challenge, defeating amendments to the party platform that could have proved politically embarrassing, polishing his acceptance summons to "Come Home, America." Campaign Manager Gary Hart admits: "There were no formal staff meetings, no requests to check people out. I take...
...Your Essay "Louder! - The Need to Complain More" was better as a partial inventory of what people have to complain about than as a solution to this growing problem...
There was no urgency, they felt, about removing the other bullet lodged against Wallace's spine. It had already done its damage. Its concussive impact had bruised nerves and caused partial paralysis. But it was now wedged "harmlessly" against the spinal cord. It could be left there until his general condition improved...
...least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content themselves with partial obscuration: 88% in Montreal, 80% in New York and 40% in Miami...