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...General Augusto C. Sandino. The Marines formed part of an occupation force dispatched to this Central American nation by President Calvin Coolidge in order to put an end to civil disturbances and the threat these posed to U.S. property and strategic interests. Sandino, a military commander, had refused to accept the political settlement imposed on Nicaragua by the U.S. He vowed to continue the struggle until the last Yankee soldier left Nicaragua, and for six years he battled the Marines while gaining international prominence as the defender of a people's sovereignty against its oppressors...
Your article on man's origins [Nov. 7] was fascinating. I find it somewhat strange that religious people refuse to accept the idea of evolution while accepting without apparent murmur other scientific knowledge. Such people hold out against evolution because they think it discredits the Bible. I believe Christianity would certainly survive if everyone frankly conceded that Adam and Eve were mythological characters...
...prevented the two neighbors from even talking about peace. In the strongest acknowledgment ever made by an Arab leader of Israel's right to exist, Sadat said, "You want to live with us in this part of the world. We welcome you in sincerity." Sadat promised that "we will accept all the international guarantees you might require" through the two superpowers, one superpower or a collection of powers. He admitted that the Arab states had rejected Israel in the past, refusing to meet its representatives. "Yet today we agree to live with you," he said. "Israel has become a fait...
Sadat insisted that Israel could have peace with justice and security, but on conditions that few of his Knesset listeners would be likely to accept. He called on Israel to return all Arab territory occupied during the Six-Day War?including the Old City of Jerusalem?and to recognize "the core of the problem": a national homeland for the Palestinian people. "It is not fair," he insisted, "to ask for yourself what you deny to others. Even the U.S., your first and foremost ally, chose to face reality...
...then he began to wonder why he saw so few young people engaged in social action. "Were they marching for full employment?" he asks. "Were they marching to rebuild cities? No, the thrust was to lower the drinking age to 18, to legalize marijuana, to engage in sex and accept no responsibility for the baby. [But] one has to have an ethical base for a society. Where the prime force is impulse, there is the death of ethics. America used to have ethical laws based in Jerusalem. Now they are based in Sodom and Gomorrah, and civilizations rooted in Sodom...