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...Americans' St. Patrick's Day; but a more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest country in the world" makes up for, even if it doesn't justify, our evil colonial history. And, of course, most people probably don't think of Columbus Day as anything but an excuse...
...carefully blot out names and other clues to informants' identities but cannot otherwise refuse criminals' requests. Under the law, they have the same right as any other citizen to find out what is in Government files about them and to correct any misinformation...
...some ways, those who take a hard-line on Humphrey's career are persuasive. His position on Vietnam was no small blot on an otherwise brilliant record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...
Getting the experts to describe the "crisis" often seems like asking them to analyze a Rorschach ink blot: each responds in terms of his own specialty. Most economists feel that the problem is not one of supply but of price-the cost of getting oil and gas to market. Specialists in international finance say that price as such is less important than the fact that consuming countries cannot keep handing over more and more money to the OPEC cartel members without imperiling global financial stability. By year's end the import bill for the U.S. alone will total...
...West Pointers have welcomed the EE 304 cadets. Their return, Cadet Mark Wroth complained in a letter last June to the campus paper, "is a blot on the academy, regardless of our personal opinions." Some faculty members agree. The former West Point commandant of cadets, Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., was reassigned last year when he opposed any leniency. Says one major: "We've lost credibility with cadets and we've lowered our standards...