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...Richard Nixon's Washington, drug abuse has reached crisis priority. Heroin addiction mounts appallingly among American soldiers in Viet Nam; each returned planeload of G.I.s adds to the drug malaise at home. Once confined to black urban ghettos, the disease has come to invade the heartland of white, middle-class America. In the judgment of some soberminded politicians, the spread of heroin addiction could have the effect of precipitating an American pullout from Southeast Asia. The President moved last week to head off any such repercussions, declaring a "national emergency" and initiating the most intensive antidrug program yet undertaken...
...dramatic turn in the fighting occurred in the northern provincial capital of Siem Reap, only 21 miles from the fabled temple ruins at Angkor. At midweek, following reports of Communist movement in the area, the hastily fortified Siem Reap airport was shut down. Only twelve hours after the last planeload of tourists had lifted off, the Communists attacked the airport, the most modern in Cambodia, and then the city...
...group of liberal Washington legislators and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins held an informal field investigation of their own. When it was over, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh protested that "What we have seen is enough to make a grown man cry." A planeload of 87 other Washington visitors, led by Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie and including Republican Senator Charles Percy and Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, flew in for the funeral of one of the shooting victims, James Earl Green, 17. They heard Fayette Mayor Charles Evers deliver a eulogy in the same hall in which services had been...
...People (ABC) is another attempt to reach the young by Mod Squad Executive Producer Aaron Spelling, 47. A planeload of 40 touring American students was somehow blown off course, crash-landed on an isolated mid-Pacific island and, in the process, lost its radio and any hope of ever returning to civilization. So the kids, stereotypes to a man (one militant black, one racist white Southerner, one rebellious daughter of a Senator) have to create their own world in a sort of college-age Lord of the Flies. In the opener, they played Hobbes with themselves and plausibility. The life...
...introducing the idea of 45-minute shows aimed at the young. Based on Billboard magazine's hot-record charts, radio's Hit Parade will be turned into a new pop-music show, The Music Scene. Then, before viewers switch their dials, The New People will strand a planeload of youngsters on an abandoned Pacific island for another 45 minutes every week...