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When he was told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...
...committee's opinion that the student body wants no part of ROTC. Since this is also the present attitude of the Faculty, a referendum on the subject would be unnecessary and possibly destructive. The CHUL is not guilty of letting sleeping dogs lie: Its decision was not to unearth a rotting corpse...
What is the actual state of the American press? Is it in fact the foe of privilege and entrenched power that it claims to be? A closer look at Watergate belies that claim. Despite recent implications to the contrary, hundreds of probing, aggressive newsmen working night and day to unearth the truth was not the story of Watergate. More accurately, two reporters--Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post--kept up through last winter the pressure which eventually helped blow the case wide open. The rest of the press did not get involved until Nixon was already reeling...
...actions of some members of his erratic Cabinet. Attorney General Lionel Murphy got him into a mess by overreacting to complaints by the Yugoslav government about Croatian terrorists' using Australia as a training ground. Murphy personally led an extraordinary invasion of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization to unearth files that had supposedly been withheld from him. It was rather as if a U.S. Attorney General had stormed the FBI. Shortly after that incident, federal and New South Wales state police staged dawn raids on 68 Croatian homes. Australians barely had time to complain about "police-state methods" when they...
...Chaos. Carmela Lacayo, 29, an American teacher and former nun who had been visiting her cousin at his home just outside the city, rushed downtown to help. There, she told TIME, she found a scene of "utter chaos: people running in the streets screaming, others digging frantically, trying to unearth trapped relatives, still others ripping up their pajamas to use as bandages. One young mother walked in the street clutching her dead baby to her chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands...