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...major factor in President Nixon's mind was his recent conclusion?supported by Pentagon doctors and specialists consulted by the Administration ?that lengthy confinement under difficult conditions has cost the lives of a number of American prisoners in both North and South Viet Nam. A recent list had marked as dead six Americans whose fates had not been known for certain. That report was sent from Hanoi on Nov. 6 to Mrs. Cora Weiss, co-chairman of the antiwar Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Viet Nam. Mrs. Weiss has given Washington the names...
There is an extra cruelty, an extra reason to despair for those whose men are identified by the Pentagon as missing in action. North Viet Nam has yet to release a complete list of the Americans it holds captive, so in some cases the family has not known for three or four years whether son, husband or father is still alive. Timothy Bodden has been missing since June 1967. Says his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bodden of Downers Grove, Ill.: "Even after 3½ years, I still find myself losing control and breaking down. There is an answer to what's happened...
...South Viet Nam have not always adhered scrupulously to the Geneva Convention, notably those provisions that bar torturing prisoners of war. But the U.S. charges North Viet Nam with massive violations. Not only does Hanoi refuse to list its prisoners, but also the North Vietnamese bar the International Committee of the Red Cross from free access to P.O.W.s. Under Article 13, "prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated." Instead, Former Astronaut Borman told Congress, the average P.O.W. has lost 45 to 60 Ibs., and in some cases the men have been "beaten, dragged through villages, and tortured...
Pure Alaska. It was only two days before he was cashiered that Hickel became the first Secretary of the Interior to use the official Endangered Species List before-not after-a species was virtually extinct. By putting eight species of whales on the list, Hickel banned imports to the U.S. of nearly all whale products (meat for pet food, oil for cosmetics, shoe polish, margarine). "Hickel has chosen to make the list preventive rather than commemorative," said Roderick Cameron, head of the Environmental Defense Fund. Two days after Hickel was fired, the White House rescinded the order...
Wilson is the second scientist-administrator being considered from the Batavia Accelerator and his presence on the list can be largely attributed to the newest Cooperation member. Charles Slichter, himself a physicist at the University of Illinois...