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...which systematically bombed the whole. The area became a sea of flame." Kokura, Niigata, Nagasaki and Hiroshima seemed to have been spared; but they were on a special list. "Day by day, Japan turned into a furnace from which the voice of a people searching for food rose in anguish," wrote Shigemitsu. "And yet the clarion call was accepted. If the Emperor ordained it, they would leap into the flames." On Okinawa, Marine Private Eugene Sledge and his compatriots prepared for the invasion "with complete resignation that we would be killed...
...present "culture wars" do not exist in liberal democracies on the other sides of the Atlantic or the Pacific. The intolerance of these clashes is aggravated by the deep anguish that descended on America after it won the cold war and found itself no better off. The Manichaean universe, divided between right (us) and wrong (Soviets), dissolved. The apocalyptic scenario, so frightening and yet so consoling, fizzled. But the mind-set it fostered remains, particularly since America is the only country in the Western world with a strong, and vengeful, current of Fundamentalist apocalyptic religion. With the death of communism...
...real anguish remaining at the heart of this vexed relationship will never be easily washed away, of course. The fact that America lost a cause draped in the noblest rhetoric but fought on cynical and divisive terms produced a sense of lingering self-doubt that may never vanish. In a significant way, though, the principles for which the war was waged are ascendant today in Vietnam. The free-market spirit of Saigon is what counts, not the Marxist maunderings of some old men in Hanoi. The Vietnamese, who lost many more lives than Americans did along the streets, rivers...
...money for abortions for women whose lives are in danger. Opponents said eliminating mandatory spending would, in short order, eliminate access toabortionsfor poor women -- and unconscionably so in cases of pregnancies after sexual assault. Said Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.): "Some of us need lectures on the kinds of anguish individual women go through when they are victims of something as heinous as rape or incest...
Here's the proper punishment for the Oklahoma bombers [COVER, May 1]: spending the rest of their lives viewing images of their victims and hearing the sounds of the anguish and grief they have caused. To punish these criminals by death would be hollow. They must live with what they have done-24 hours a day, 365 days a year...