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This was a year that disproved the truism that scenes of tragedy all blur together, that photographs of famine in Biafra and Ethiopia, Sudan and then Somalia just pile on in layers, forming a callous around the conscience. Brought face to face one more time with starvation, the world did not just shrug. And pictures gave other conflicts their own unforgettable faces. Some of the video-game visuals from last year's fighting in the Persian Gulf were strangely antiseptic, an invitation to forget that war is the mass production of individual suffering. The photographs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where...
Hopefully, this mistake is due more to poor journalism than to a writer or editor's callous disregard for the individual accomplishments of Mexican-Americans. Even if this is the case, I find it appalling that Crimson editors continually fail to catch blatant errors of fact...
...Prime Minister John Major rescinded his government's six-day-old order to close 31 coal mines within five months. The closures would have resulted in the loss of jobs for 30,000 miners and staff. Faced with mutiny within his own party and widespread public anger over the callous treatment of coal workers, Major delayed the closing of 10 of the mines until after the first of the year. The fate of the remaining 21 mines awaits the results of a study on the future of coal mining in the U.K., not a cheery prospect in any case...
Although Laird and two of his successors, Elliot Richardson and James Schlesinger, testified last week before a Senate committee that some American POWs may have been left behind in Indochina, there is no evidence that Kissinger was callous toward their fate. His critics may be justified in attacking his bureaucratic methods, but they have no reason to impugn his motives. As he pointed out in his Senate testimony last week, there were no reliable reports of live Americans being held in violation of the accord. And he was also persuasive in charging that neither the public nor the Congress...
...Rindge] is not a school of violence...We alllook like a callous bunch of idiots," said Rindgejunior Nell Whiting, a neighbor of McHugh. Andpart of the misconception about her school, shesays, results from played-up accounts of knockout,a game she could never imagine her fellowstudents, not to mention her childhood friend,playing...