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...group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they are attacked. Here it's forbidden." Here the aggressor, more often than not, is a woman, child or student...
...whole towns that are just sort of destitute." Eugene Whelan, the former Canadian Agriculture Minister who was later Gorbachev's host in North America, also visited him in 1981 and got into an argument about armaments. Says Whelan: "He was going on about how the U.S. was the aggressor, how it was making weapons. He said the U.S. was returning to the conditions of the 1950s." When Whelan remonstrated that in the American view it was the Soviet Union that had piled up weapons far beyond any legitimate defense needs, Gorbachev brusquely responded, "That is erroneous...
...United Nations, Iraq agreed to a proposal by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar that a cease-fire and an inquiry into the responsibility for the war begin simultaneously. Iran has insisted that Iraq be branded the aggressor before it will agree to a U.N. resolution to end hostilities. There is no guarantee of the outcome of such an inquiry, even though Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran triggered the war. In the event that the probe failed to blame Iraq, Iran would almost certainly reject it and continue the fight...
...part, the Administration insists that its policy is to retaliate swiftly against attacks on the gulf convoy -- once the aggressor has been accurately identified. Discussing the Bridgeton incident recently, for example, Weinberger asserted that it is impossible to know who laid the mine. "They don't leave fingerprints," said the Secretary curtly...
Turow does not release the reader from the challenge proferred. This challenge is not to solve a crime, but to recognize that all people can play multiple roles--victim, aggressor, lover, thinker--without paradox...