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...Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch it, rub its mysterious fluid on their bodies, and even to drink the stuff...
...obvious less-privileged groups. Moreover, would you not reintroduce many of the invidious distinctions you in fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...
Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...those with limited schooling, there are countless opportunities to learn valuable skills; for those with college degrees, there is something to be learned from sharing in the experience of their generation. The ambiguous nature of the war in Viet Nam-and the war's peril to life and limb-requires a higher duty quotient than usual of those who are called to serve. Still, ever since the city-states of ancient Greece first summoned their youth to arms, young men have responded to-and frequently found satisfaction in-what General Hershey calls "the privilege and obligation of free...
Died. Herbert Marshall, 75, British-born cinemactor, who lost his right leg in World War I, learned to walk with only the barest limp on an artificial limb, then emigrated to the U.S. and became the very model of a Hollywood Briton in all the stereotypes from charming rake (Trouble in Paradise) to losing-but-noble lover (Accent on Youth); apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...