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...things Ford asked of Congress are diametrically opposite to what Vietnam needs, and his reasoning directly contradicted the American experience in Southeast Asia. The "vast human tragedy" that he said has "befallen Vietnam" is largely the result of twenty years of American aid that propped up unpopular governments, and of direct military intervention to keep them in power. The "enormous sacrifices" in American "blood, dedication and treasure" he spoke of are insignificant in comparison with the courage and suffering of the Vietnamese people and the National Liberation Front, who have continued to fight against enormous odds since long before...
...been unexceptional--that her political involvement is "the natural, logical way to defend our embattled humanity." The only extraordinary event during her lifetime-her rescue from persecution and death by millions throughout the world--had nothing to do with her as an individual, Davis says, and could easily have befallen another brother or sister...
...Evil. After a few weeks in Lubyanka, the seeds of doubt had been planted in the mind of the fervent young Marxist. But it was only after he was transferred from Lubyanka to another Moscow prison, Butyrki, that Solzhenitsyn began to perceive the scope of the evil that had befallen his country. In Butyrki, he met the first contingent of Russian soldiers and civilians who had been captured by the Germans during the war. These people were now being repatriated?straight into Stalin's prisons and camps. Nearly 2 million of the 5.7 million prisoners of war had died...
Unlike tragedy, which unites people of vastly different eras, comedy has a pesky devotion to the calendar. It is rigid as to time present and is extremely vulnerable to time future. What has befallen Holiday is not so much a fail ure of craft as a passage of time in which substantial historical and social changes have occurred...
...have mysteriously lost millions of dollars in similar projects that turned out to be astonishingly poor business ventures for such a sophisticated union. Recently, a $7,000,000 Teamster loan to a New Mexican toy manufacturer was lost when the company went out of business. A similar fate has befallen Teamster loans to a Las Vegas ice-skating rink, to a hotel in Reno, to a truck stop in Dearborn, Mich., to a real estate development in the Santa Monica mountains in California...