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...government, Georgakas writes, is guilty of outright lying about the hazards of living near nuclear plants, and of callous insensitivity to government employees whose health was irreparably damaged by exposure to nuclear wastes, among them the army units dispatched during the 1950's into radioactive zones in a bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident...
Responding to the attack, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared bitterly: "I hope that when [the soldiers'] murderers have been tried and convicted, no one will claim that they are entitled to special privileges . . . for having done cold, callous, brutal murder." Though opposition M.P.s have begun calling for a more flexible approach to the Northern Ireland problem, Thatcher's tough stance on the prison protest still had strong backing from the British public: in a recent poll, only 4% believed that the prisoners should have political status...
Further, being so callous as to conduct a search for Haig's successor at this time could only undermine U.S. interests, prestige, and ability to take action in response to something like a Soviet incursion into Poland...
...Colonel Fairfax, Donald Hovey also stands out. An unusually complex role among Gilbert and Sullivan leading tenors, Fairfax begins as a thoroughly sympathetic character. But by the end of the operetta, he becomes a callous rake, and his marriage to the strolling singer Elsie Maynard leaves two characters heart-broken: Phoebe and Jack Point, the jester who loves Elsie...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Hakansson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...