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Just how Allen came out atop the poll of seniors is unclear. Not even half of the class voted. I, for one, never saw a ballot--certainly not one headed by Woody Allen, Walter Cronkite and Madame Binh--and I eat most meals in the dining halls, where the voting took place...
Precisely how-or even if-the Administration's proposed cuts will further disadvantage the veterans is still unclear. Last month the VA proposed to reduce the payments to some 225,000 physically disabled veterans who have been out of service less than 20 years -predominantly the victims of Indochina's land mines and booby traps. Though the plan also would have increased payments for psychological disabilities on the grounds that they are more of an impairment to employment, the idea met with such outrage that President Nixon shelved it, at least temporarily. The Administration also fired Olney...
From Duff we slowly learn that he and Beth are married, and once worked as domestic servants for a man named Sykes, who has died and left them the house in which they sit. Yet, much is unclear: was Beth's lover Sykes, Duff, or another--or was he just a fantasy? And why do the couple no longer speak to each other? All that is clear is that their lives now consist mainly of memories, of images revived from their past...
...also unclear how these two demands, which require an increased University allotment for graduate student aid, can be met without withdrawing funds from undergraduates and non-professional employees, as the Union has justly demanded...
Following the appearance Hersh's story, further accounts of alleged mistreatment and torture emerged, often from U.S. Government officials. It is still unclear how widespread mistreatment was. The health and high spirits of the prisoners themselves seem to suggest relatively humane treatment. Yet official sources say that before October 1969, when conditions improved, psychological and physical torture often occurred. Prisoners were hung upside down from beams until they were ready to talk, made to stand for hours without being allowed to move, and forced to crawl through latrines filled with human excrement. They were beaten with clubs and rifle...