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...international monetary system is in ruins, and it will be necessary to reconstruct...
...Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic tragedy. Those of us waiting outside finally realized that it would end only with the counting of the dead." Willwerth was joined by Mary Cronin and Leonard Levitt, who helped reconstruct what had happened behind the walls and how the towns people of Attica viewed the conflict. Levitt, an experienced police reporter, obtained a private interview with Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald. Roger Williams, as signed to analyze the political impact of Attica, obtained a special interview with Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Joseph Boyce...
...only way out of the mess, decided Bank President Ralph Comstock Jr., was to reconstruct each check, shred by quarter-inch shred. So the workers began their chore, segregating the slices by color, length, width, signatures and amounts, then matching and pasting the checks together one by painstaking one. More than 2,000 checks worth about $300,000 have been reassembled. To speed things up the bank is now planning to spread the work into two shifts. Even so, it will be weeks before the job is finally completed...
...church. Right now the church enjoys a slight advantage; a recent poll showed 49.3% against the divorce law, 42.2% for it. Caught in the middle for another agonizing year, meanwhile, are thousands of people who are trying to right old wrongs, give illegitimate children a name, and reconstruct their lives and families...
...grief in other families. A brusque father whose son William was in emotional trouble got "a feeling of being half lost" when he heard Lewis' sobs. Then, says Paul, "he recollected the time when he himself had felt intense grief"-when his father remarried. Then, Paul helped him reconstruct what he knew but had blocked off: that when he was four, his mother had killed both his nine-month-old sister and herself. Because he had repressed his sorrow instead of facing it, he had never recovered from the experience. Under Paul's guidance, he saw that...