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...long days of anticipation. In gathering material for this week's cover story on the returning P.O.W.s, TIME correspondents waited out the difficult hours with a number of the families, while staffers on the other side of the world watched the preparations to care for the first freed servicemen...
Given the automatic yearly rises in Social Security, veterans' benefits and interest on the national debt, as well as Nixon's commitment to higher servicemen's pay and new weapons systems, the only way that the President can hold the line at $270 billion is to slow the rapid growth rates of some federal programs and totally eliminate others. Among the projects most likely to be cut are manpower training and federal grants-in-aid for housing, pollution control and education. Each of these programs has developed "fiscal constituencies"-politically powerful groups of businessmen, union leaders, local...
...literature of the illicit narcotics trade bristles with tales of perniciously ingenious capers and official corruption. It will probably be a long time, however, before any new chapters can top the two now unfolding. In one case, it is believed that traffickers used the bodies and caskets of American servicemen to smuggle drugs into the U.S. from Southeast Asia. In the second, huge quantities of heroin confiscated by the New York police department were systematically stolen, put back into the street trade, and may now be a source of horse for the holidays. Herewith reports on the two cases...
...parents who share her plight, Mrs. Rander has endured years of frustrated effort in her husband's behalf. Three years ago, at Nixon's invitation, she went to Washington with other P.O.W. wives to discuss what the President termed "the distressing situation of our captured and missing servicemen." Since then both she and her daughters have exchanged letters with the White House, desperate pleas answered with slender hopes...
...been imprisoned for resisting the draft were released. The 12,000 Aussie conscript troops were given the option of resigning or completing their 18-month terms with additional benefits; volunteer members of the armed forces were offered re-enlistment bonuses of $1,000. The 140 Australian servicemen still in Viet Nam, remnants of a force that had numbered almost 8,000 in 1968, were ordered home by Christmas...