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...that you Americans are bent on making Watergate Nixon's Waterloo? Are you sure this is what you want to do to the man who got you out of Viet Nam, made friends with the Chinese, lifted the Iron Curtain a bit-all within the past few years? Is this your way of saying thank you to a great leader who has done a lot for peace...
...numbers of Americans, however, drew the opposite conclusion from the Vietnam war. As the conflict escalated and the body counts from Vietnam continued to mount, students, and others, began to apply this moral imperative against genocide to their own government. Even if the Vietnamese dead were all Communist automatons bent upon subverting liberty, and even if the American cause was initially just, the extent the killing, the mounds of the dead, showed that the U.S. government was pursuing a policy of moral obscenity. No political goals were worth such a toll in lives. Why fight to avert a bloodbath...
...come these union-hating growers welcome Teamster advances rather than negotiate with a worker-controlled union? Growers, not surprisingly, prefer to deal with bosses who have nothing in common with the men and women who spend their lives bent over in the fields (When you read the terms of the contract this unholy alliance produced, you'll see just how well the Growers and Teamsters get along -- and why it only took them all of two days to write that contract...
...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...
...also a swift kick, because you haven't written for so long." Jolson delivered the message to General Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. "Well," said Ike, "when you get back home, give Mrs. Eisenhower back that kiss. As for the other ..." Ike bent over, lifted the flap of his jacket and told Jolson to carry out his wife's instructions...