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...citizens one from the other and each from himself. The urban river, says Jones, "is the memory bank of all past bodily errors, assaulting the most carefully bathed, sprayed, spayed and pressed." To Jones' eye, despoliation, like nearly everything else in Drifting, can be delightfully ambiguous. The Lincoln Tunnel reminds him of an extended lavatory wall; there is fascination in the waverings of tin cans, tires and old shoes under a few inches of water...
...Government contends that the letters are authentic. If so, a kidnap plot certainly was discussed, although it is also clear that no violence to Kissinger was planned. The notion of kidnaping Kissinger and grilling him while cameras grind and tunnel explosions provide a sonic background seems a fanciful and irrational exercise for well-educated clerics. But to the Government, at least, the matter is too serious to be dismissed as the surrealistic musings of excited crusaders...
Nixon, meanwhile, sensing a political tunnel wave, announced that he would personally review Calley's case. The prosecutor in the Calley trial then wrote an eloquent rebuke to Nixon, criticizing his incursion into the military murder case appeal procedure. Now Democratic Party politicians are gloating over Nixon's blunder, since he will eventually (before the elections?) have to overrule either the army trial officers or his middle American constituency...
...long would Nixon have the U.S. fight to keep Saigon out of Communist hands? Few Americans could be soothed when Nixon resurrected an ancient and unhappy Indochina metaphor, saying that his next troop withdrawal announcement would bring "some indication as to the end of the tunnel...
...Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes sealed...