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ABC special deals with Gls
By ROBERT MUSEL
NEW YORK (UPI)-“If any
man shall be sent forth as a
soldier and return maimed he
sail be maintained competently
by the colony for his life.’’
This, the first statement of
the responsibility of a govern
ment to those willing to risk
their lives for it ever laid down
in North America, was drafted
by the Pilgrims in 1636 during
the war with the Pequot
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NEW GUN BAN SOUGHT
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen.
Birch Bayh, D-Ind., says he
plans to introduce legislation
that would ban the sale of
small-caliber handguns to any
one but law enforcement
officials.
An exception would be made
if the Treasury Department
determines the gun involved
would be used for sporting
purposes. Bayh, however, said
he believed small-caliber hand
guns were useless for sports.
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| 116 West Solomon Street Phone 227-5515 ,
Friday, August 13,1971
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Indians.
Using it as his text, the
admirable Ernest Pendrell of
ABC-TV News has written,
produced and directed a
documentary, “When Johnny
Comes Marching Home” which
shows how dramatically times
have changed since that simple
promise to fighting men at the
very dawn of the colonies that
became the United States.
There are hundreds of
thousands of unemployed Viet
nam era veterans who can
testify the change is not for the
better—a number of them
caught by Pendrell’s cameras
in an hourlong special sche
duled for broadcast on the
ABC-TV network Sept. 1.
Readjustment to civilian life
has been a problem in every
war but never before, he said,
has there been such frustration
and bitterness.
“It’s a combination of fac
tors,” Pendrell said in an
interview. “They’ve come home
with little of the fanfare given
beterans of earlier wars, to a
depressed economy marked by
inflation and unemployment
and since they are on the
average the youngest ever to
have fought in a foreign war
many of them have never been
in the job market before.”
Pendrell took his cameras to
die separation center at Fort
Dix where he saw what he says
is one of the most remarkable
sights of his not uneventful life
—a chaplain actually praying
for jobs for those about to be
discharged: “God be with thee,
be with those going out for
employment. May they find
jobs that meet their needs and
those who depend on them.”
Most of the filming was done
in Denver because while its
general unemployment rate is
below the national average it
has 25,000 unemployed veterans
—equal to the national average.
Pendrell says the sheer statis
tics are staggering—2B million
veterans in the country, an sll
billion budget for the veterans
administration; more than 5
million Vietnam era veterans
and the boys coming home at
the rate of 80,000 a month.
“Something must be done
outside the normal channels to
find meaningful employment
for these young men,” Pendrell
said.
He filmed a convict in the
Colorado State Penitentiary—a
young veteran who, unable to
get a job, got a gun instead and
went in for crime—firearms
was one of the few skills he
acquired in Southeast Asia. He
interviewed a veteran who
couldn’t get a job as a pilot
though he had logged 4,000
hours. “I refused to believe a
man with that experience
couldn’t find work in civil
aviation,” Pendrell said, “then
I found that in the last seven
months alone 11,000 pilots had
been released. What can we do
with them?”
His documentary reaches this
conclusion: “If we can spend
$42 million a day to fight a war
we can afford the millions it
would take to find work for
every returning vet.”
Television
Harry Reasoner
is moving up
By ROBERT MUSEL
NEW YORK (UH)-The last
time I saw Harry Reasoner he
was soothing a somewhat
nervous Duke and Duchess of
Windsor into so confident a
mood they gave the perfor
mance of their lives for him in
a television interview. Anyone
who was present then would not
be at all surprised to find the
grey and urbane Harry has
fulfilled every hope ABC had
for him when it tempted him
away from CBS to head the top
newscast.
Looking back over the first
eight months of his teaming
with Howard K. Smith in the
evening news, Reasoner sat at
a desk littered with news
agency copy—he writes his own
stuff from it—and said he was
delighted with the increasing
popularity of the show.
“We hoped we would be
second (to Walter Cronkite of
CBS) in three years,” he said.
“But now I think we’ll make it
in two or perhaps even a year
and a half.”
This forecast depends some
what on NBC which has no
intention of dropping back in
the news ratings. Discussing
what NBC might do, someone
mentioned that Britain’s BBC
picked its three stars for looks
and voice as they might have
cast actors for a specific role.
Harry didn’t think this tech
nique practical for the United
States.
“Tell me,” he said, chuckling,
“would you really cast a fellow
who lodes like Walter as a top
commentator?”
Although the main content of
network news must necessarily
be much the same Reasoner
thinks there are differences in
format, similar to variations in
the makeup of newspapers,
which accounts for viewer
preferences. Cronkite is known
to regret that news is subject to
the same ratings pressure as
entertainment shows. But Har
ry credits the competition with
improving newscasts by forcing
simpler graphics among other
advances.
He said he is stepping
gingerly into commentaries as
part of the evening news. There
is a thin line that divides
commentary from opinion and
he has no intention of crossing
it. Too many stated opinions he
said, could reflect on a
conunentaor’s credibility on
straight news.
When the 48-year-old broad
caster in Ireland recently
friends were surprised that
Americans recognized him in
the street and even asked for
his autograph.
“Are you a celebrity, then?”
the Irish asked.
Over there, you see, the man
who reads the news is, well,
simply the man who reads the
news.
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KEY FIGURE in the
Washington-Peking rap
prochment is Huang Hua,
new Communist Chinese
ambassador to Canada.
Huang was on hand during
presidential adviser Henry
Kissinger’s talks in Peking
to arrange President
Nixon's coming visit and is
expected will maintain
contact with Washington
from his Ottawa post.
BACK ON TOP after the
coup and countercoup in
the Sudan, President
Gaafar Numeiry has come
under increasing Western
pressure to halt the wave
of executions of alleged
participants in the three
day overthrow of his re
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DURANGO, Mexico (UPI)-
Thirty-nine children have died
of dehydration and other hydric
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