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Although acknowledging the presence of Vietnamese in the country, they said the brunt of the onslaught against the Lon Nol regime was being shouldered by the Khmer Rouge, an indigenous revolutionary movement...
...brunt of our report was to seriously question Herbert's claim that his career in the army was ruined because he tried to report war crimes and have them investigated. The conclusion we came to, after talking with more than 120 people who have known Herbert at all points in his career--some civilians, some military; man off-the-record--is that Herbert is lying. I can put it no other...
...They simply lay about in the streets." Others are convinced that they had been lured to Israel as cannon fodder for its wars. "It's the fault of the American Jewish millionaires," says Tbilisi Shopkeeper Joseph Mamishva-lov. "They pay their money but want us to bear the brunt. A boil is good on somebody else's body...
...PLAN IS NOT without its problems. As mentioned, seven school districts in Roxbury remain imbalanced and two other districts exceed state guidelines in distance. In addition, members of the black community have objected that black children will bear the brunt of the traveling. Still, out of the 15,000 non-white students at this time attending imbalanced schools, the plan would leave only 2300, and this would be achieved without large-scale, time-consuming busing...
...saved the brunt of his criticism, however, for Richard Nixon, when he called "a man with an extraordinary amount of unchecked power--this has almost become...