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...been no security leak on the abortive Son Tay raid: "Most military and intelligence people in Saigon simply weren't given the details of the air strikes or the commando raid. They hadn't seen the script." In Washington, Correspondent William Mader, who has followed the plight of the prisoners all along, talked with concerned Government officials and with the wives of the men. "What impressed me most was the immense quiet courage and fortitude of the wives," he says. Adds Keith Johnson, who wrote the story and talked at length with a group of wives last summer...
...jury would have sympathized with the plight of Boccardo's client. A diesel mechanic from Ely, Nev., Keith Bush, now 30, suffered grave brain damage when a bolt snapped and 1,250 Ibs. of electrical equipment hurtled down to crush the left side of his skull...
...situation of the migratory farm workers makes this a unique case," Wiggins said. "This is in no sense an ordinary collective bargaining dispute. The migratory farm workers' plight-too long neglected-is a matter of intense human and social concern...
Nixon is no less aware that he may be sowing the wind by allowing the plight of the POW's to dominate the nation's attention this winter-but he expects that the North Vietnamese, not his Administration, will reap the whirlwind that results. The tear-jerking Christmas-in-Hanoi campaign is, in fact, part of a shrewd double-bladed political defense he has constructed to still domestic protest and free his hand further for acts of aggression against North Vietnam...
...Dandy and the Tradesman. Elegiac, autumnal and melancholy though it is, Home is shot through with rueful humor. Playwright Storey subtly draws an ironic parallel between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...