ISSUE DATE: October 9, 1972; Vol LXXX, No 15

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE BATTLE OF THE POW'S: The much-manipulated yet all-but- forgotten Americans of the Vietnam war took stage center last week in the bizarre odyssey of three POW's from Hanoi to New York. The homecoming threw a harsh light on the role of the POW's as pawns in a con- tinuing political and propaganda battle at home and abroad. Newsweek's Martin Kasindorf accompanied the Steele released men on the last leg of theIr journey; Tom Mathews reported on the antiwar activists who brought them home, and Henry L. Trewhitt assessed the evolution of Washington's policy on prisoners of war. From their files, Associate Editor Richard Steele wrote the cover story. For a companion piece by Associate Editor Daniel Chu, Thomas M. DeFrank filed on the lingering physical and psychological problems that afflict ex-POW's. (Newsweek cover photo by Dan McCoy -- Black Star.).

FINANCIAL WARFARE: Bruising confrontations had been predicted when the world's finance mInisters gathered in Washington last week, but the mood proved euphoric as they found a striking degree of agreement on how to reform the monetary system. In the new era of "symmetry," the moneymen decided, nations that prosper too well Thomas may be punished for it. Ironically, Rich Thomas learned, the new harmony is producing an act of financial war, with the U.S., Britain and West Germany teaming up to force a revaluation of the high-riding Japanese yen. "The yen is finished at its existing rate," said a top U.S. blow it up. They've stalled too concessions too long." aide. "We're going to long and made token.

THE NON-CAMPAIGN: The peculiar campaign of 1972 lumbered on, with the public-opinion polls (page 31) continuing to show a wide, though probably narrowing, lead for Mr. Nixon and a special Newsweek survey (page 30) suggesting that he might be in reach of a 50-state sweep. Spiro Agnew and Sargent Shriver were displaying their strikingly opposite styles of stumping (page 32). But the most remarkable feature of the political season was the voters' plague-on-both-your-houses attitude about it all (page 29) -- a phenomenon that has helped make 1972, so far at least, the year of the non-campaign.

A New -- and Bigger -- Appalachia?: With little public notice, big coal companies have been buying up Federal leases to the world's richest coal deposit and getting ready to strip-mine huge tracts of North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. Conservationists are mustering for a classic battle to save the Plains. James Bishop Jr. toured the area, and General Editor Tom Nicholson wrote the story.

FULL NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
THE WAR IN INDOCHINA:
The three Pow's come home (the Cover).
For ex-prisoners: the shock of freedom New Indochina peace rumors.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The turned-off voters of campaign '72.
Political polls: how reliable are they?.
Pat Caddell, McGovern's young pollster.
veepstakes: Agnew and Shrlver.
Tom Eagleton today.
More watergate headlines.
Welfare reform Is doomed.
America's abominable snowman.
INTERNATIONAL:
ChIna-Japan accord: new era.
Anti-Japanese feeling on Taiwan.
Norway rejects the common Market.
The Philippines under martial law.
The spy who shot the Israeli aide.
SCIENCE:
Sniffing out drugs with microbes.
Estrogen and submissive behavior.
Children of Incest: a new study.
Listening for air pollution.
THE MEDIA:
TV's Maude -- a match for Archie Bunker?.
Money magazine's first Issue.
EDUCATION: Schools in the oddest places. A test for the "voucher plan".
LIFE AND LEISURE: Le Pavilion closes, the souffle falls; Black-history games.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
Remaking the world's monetary system.
Short reign at IBM.
Legalizing the discount flights.
A battle looms over a giant new coal field.
The supermarkets' price war.
Trying the three-day workweek.
SPORTS: Joe Namath's return.
MEDICINE: Good Samaritan doctors and the law; New aid for the heart-transplant patient; The epidemic of 'invisible gonorrhea".
RELIGION: Jailhouse religion, or a new con game?; Marge Champion dances for the Lord; Theodore Roszak on the "wasteland".
THE COLUMNISTS:
Henry C. Wallich.
CIem Morgello.
Stewart Alsop.

THE ARTS:
THEATER: A rep company's "School for Scandal".
MOVIES: The New York Film Festival.
BOOKS:
Richard Buckle's "Nijinsky".
Midge Decter's "The New Chastity".
Steven Millhauser's "Edwin Mullhouse".
Lois Gould's "Necessary Objects".
John Barth's "Chimera".
ART: "Woman as Heroine": a Worcester art show.
MUSIC:
Rock: enter David Bowie.
A Soviet musician tells why he defected.
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