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...mine. (Laughter.) Now Vice President Ky suggests that I resign. Why? I have no reason for that. I cannot abandon the country. I would be accused by the people and the historians. To the army I also said very clearly, if the whole army comes here to say "You betray your country, you go against the people," you can have a very peaceful coup d'état. (Laughter.) If [however] the National Assembly wants to postpone the election, then it must amend the Constitution. To do that it needs a two-thirds majority. If it does that I will...
...Axis powers, he went to Washington to "talk some sense into the President." Roosevelt refused to see him. When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason. He saw himself as a Confucian scholar-statesman, and plastered the town of Rapallo with moralistic slogans: HONESTY IS THE TREASURE OF STATES. His daughter sees him as a lone wolf howling in a world gone...
...book Revolt on the Nile, however, Sadat outlined the intention of the Free Officers Movement to betray Britain to Rommel's Afrika Korps: "We made contact with the Germans' headquarters in Libya, and we acted in complete harmony with them" and "We would join with the Axis troops, and the fate of the British Empire would be sealed...
...disclose the details of its affirmative action plan filed with HEW, has moved very slowly in encouraging the development of day care facilities, and has been eager to preserve the admissions quota on female undergraduates even as Radcliffe merges into the University. Such policies have often seemed to betray an indifference to the urgency of improving women's status in the academic world...
STUDENT ART regrettably falls into the arbitrary and self- defensive categories used by critics and artists alike. These distinctions-women's art, ethnic art and black art-betray a self-consciousness that is political. If you are critical of black art, you are a racist. If you don't like women's art, you must be a chauvinist...