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...victory parade in Hue, pointing up the ambiguities of the celebration. CBS's Walter Cronkite returned to Viet Nam with Republican Congressman John McCain, a former prisoner of war, and revisited the place where McCain had been shot down and imprisoned. Today offered a moving segment on the plight of Amerasians in Viet Nam, the children fathered by American G.I.s and now treated as outcasts. Nonetheless, viewers could not be faulted if they felt they were seeing the country through a peephole. The coverage of Viet Nam took up more than enough time, but in an important...
RELEASED. Gary Dotson, 28, convict serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a 1977 rape; on $100,000 bond while Illinois authorities consider his plight; from the state penitentiary at Joliet. The trial judge had freed Dotson on bail five weeks ago, then decided that the recantation of his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, was not sufficiently believable and returned him to prison after a week. Said Dotson after he left prison: "I feel like a pinball...
...Wenching" are both good fun. John Ellis' "Sarah Hazard's Love Letter," is a poignant verse based upon an actual tragic letter. In "The Rural Lass", Catherine Jemmat's story of a woman determined to marry despite her parents' disapproval, sheds some light on the pitifully subordinate plight of the eighteenth century women Edward Chicken's portrait of "The Collier's Wedding" is a somber depiction of a rural feast that conjures up interesting comparisons with the paintings of Breugal and the works of Hardy...
According to another striker, Laird C. Touessend, a 22-year-old senior from Mill Valley, Calif., Sovern said he agreed that apartheid hurts South Africa's 22 million Blacks, but said he feels American companies operating there can improve their plight. This position is basically the same as that of Harvard President Bok in opposing divestment...
Wolf said her experience of 40-year ago mirrored the plight of the more than twenty-five Haitian and Salvadoran refugees who mingled in the crowd outside...