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...Interior Stewart Udall, then released him to appear in court Jan. 28. "It's just incredible to me that this sort of thing can happen to an American," sputtered Udall. "I want the whole story told in court so that people can see what can happen to an absent-minded individual...
...Americal Division Headquarters banning the term "search and destroy" from the division's official vocabulary and suggesting the use of other phrases that would "give the reader no basis for assuming a lack of compassion on the part of members of this command." Indeed, compassion was not completely absent at My Lai. Immediately after the slaughter, G.I.s found two survivors, little girls. They fed the children and delivered them safely to neighboring Vietnamese...
THROUGHOUT the week of rioting in Poland, the name of Wladyslaw Gomulka was conspicuously absent from the hortatory broadcasts of Radio Warsaw. To students of Communist behavioral psychology, the silent treatment was sure evidence that the remarkable and rebellious compromiser was struggling mightily behind the scenes to save...
...studied the tiny air sacs that constitute the functioning surface of the lung, where the actual transfer of gases between the air and the blood occurs. When normal lungs exhale, the sacs are held open by fatty substances called lipids. But in RDS infants, Gluck found, these lipids are absent. Result: the victim breathes harder, the air sacs collapse, and soon the lungs stop functioning...
Joseph Maynard, whose vote would break the tie, was again absent...