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...rights" without civil wars. And he sneered at the notion that blacks were the cause of the war. A horse thief did not apologize for his theft by blaming the horse. "No, Mr. President, it is not the innocent horse that makes the horse thief ... but the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, money and Negroes by means of theft, robbery and rebellion." He called Lincoln "a genuine representative of American prejudice" who was more concerned about the border states than about any "principle of justice and humanity...
...face was a map to his soul. The inherent contradictions of the man, whose gift for empathy was matched by his brutal determination to keep the Union together, are what make him one of the most edifying subjects to study in all of U.S. history. Three years ago, TIME began the Making of America series. Each year around the Fourth of July it features a major American figure who helped shaped the nation. We began with explorers Lewis and Clark, then focused on Ben Franklin and last year chose Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue...
...people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern Burma alone. The junta has dismissed allegations of army atrocities against ethnic minorities as "totally untrue...
Waldheim, Kirchschläger declared last week, must have known about the brutal reprisals taken against the partisans by his army unit. But while the President mentioned a 1948 recommendation by the War Crimes Commission that Waldheim be prosecuted for his actions, he added, "I would not dare to file an indictment in a regular court. Do not expect & verdict from...
Booze is the thematic undercurrent of Jimmy Breslin's fifth novel, a brutal slab of working-class life set among the Irish in the New York City borough of Queens. This is where Breslin learned his own trade as a newspaperman, reporting on the ways and means of the Archie Bunker set. His headlong bowling-ball prose can currently be found in the New York Daily News, where he is a Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist. There, as here, Breslin's lack of subtlety is his greatest strength. His characters are undereducated, abusive and conflicted by feelings of pride and shame. Table...