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...odyssey of good will had taken him 35,000 miles, but when Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, 39, came home to Dallas last week, he had little to show for his trip. Twelve days earlier, Perot had loaded a chartered Boeing 707 jet-christened Peace on Earth -with Christmas presents and messages for American G.I.s held captive by the North Vietnamese. Another jet, named Goodwill Toward Men, waited vainly in Los Angeles for his call to follow...
...Perot's first stop was Bangkok, where he arranged to meet with Hanoi officials in Vientiane, Laos. They refused to allow delivery of the cargo to the American prisoners, so Perot tried another good-will tactic, offering "traditional Christmas dinners" for North Vietnamese war orphans. Rebuffed again, the persistent Perot went to the Russian embassy in Vientiane to try to get the packages delivered via Moscow...
...Skokie and Chillicothe. They tend toward the middle-aged and the middlebrow. They are defined as much by what they are not as by what they are. As a rule, they are not the poor or the rich. Still, many wealthy business executives are Middle Americans. H. Ross Perot, the Texas millionaire who organized a group called "United We Stand Inc." to support the President on the war, is an example. Few blacks march in the ranks of Middle America. Nor do the nation's intellectuals, its liberals, its professors, its surgeons. Many general practitioners, though, are Middle Americans. Needless...
More than $500,000 worth of newspaper ads inviting readers to clip and mail coupons with statements like "Mr. President: You have my support in your efforts to bring a just and lasting peace" have been placed by United We Stand, a group organized by H. Ross Perot. 39, a Dallas millionaire. No right-winger, Perot, who heads Electronic Data Systems Corp., was inspired by a recent talk with Lyndon Johnson. "He is still deeply concerned about the war and wants peace," says Perot. "In fact, the four Presidents who have administered this war have felt it necessary to stabilize...
...Perot argues that Nixon's critics have quite properly developed effective ways to show their dissent, but that "the average American has no opportunity to speak out on individual issues. We simply want to give the common man an entry point into the system that overwhelms him." Perot hopes that the ads, placed in more than 100 newspapers, and a half-hour television program carried Sunday on 50 stations, will inspire what he calls "the invisible American." He is convinced that nearly all Americans are united on the need to end the war. "Some 19-year-olds went...