Word: grounds
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...article "Clergy and Abortions" [Nov. 28] contains several minor statistical errors and one misleading statement that should be corrected. You say that when the clergymen's counseling service "was being organized, a committee met quietly with state officials and agreed to the ground rules." The meeting took place, but ground rules were merely discussed. State officials did not agree to them...
Private Richard Pendleton arrived after most of the killing was over. "But some guys were still shooting people who were running around the village. There were big groups of bodies lying on the ground, in gullies and in the paddies." He said he saw a boy standing among the bodies of 15 adults. "There was just this little kid there, this little boy, and I looked over and saw Medina [the company commander] shoot him. I don't know why he did it, except that there was a bunch of bodies there?and I guess the boy's mother...
...have seen men pushed out of airplanes, shot with their hands tied behind their backs, drowned because they refused to answer questions. I have also seen the bodies of women and children disemboweled by the Viet Cong." He recalls a young Marine who flung a Vietnamese woman to the ground and robbed her at knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down...
...Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal Russian writers were planning to publish "a frightful underground magazine." Though full of remorse for his denunciation, which could have cost the innocent writers seven years of hard labor, Kuznetsov justified it on the ground that the Soviet system requires writers to work with the KGB in order to publish, let alone go abroad. Excerpts from Amalric's letter to Kuznetsov...
Austrian Painter Ernst Fuchs finds a middle ground. He thinks that his experiments with mescaline and other drugs have opened an "aperture" in his consciousness that now enables him to experience the same kinds of perception via pure meditation. But his fellow Austrian, Friedrich Hundertwasser, found his own experience with drugs as a youth in Paris frightening, and is adamant in rejecting them. "Look at Venice," he says. "This city appears like a vision contrived under drug influence. Yet had its builders been drug eaters, they would have never managed the energy to build it. They would have merely dreamed...