Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock curfew. Violators were warned that they would be shot on sight. While the army struggled to rid Santiago of leftist snipers, householders kept their heads down because itchy soldiers fired whenever a window went up too fast. There were rumors that pro-Allende army units were in command of the southern part of the country. By week's end, the military officially declared that life in the capital was returning to normal. But a stringent curfew remained in effect, the airports stayed closed, and all communications with the outside world were censored...
...grim recital of the facts. The ROTC program at Harvard before the Indochina War obviously did nothing to mitigate the horrors of the war. As for the humanity of Harvard men, no statistics exist for the incidence of atrocities among ground troops, but at the top of the command chain the criminal venture was planned by Harvard men--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty, Robert MacNamara, a graduate of the Business School, and later Henry A. Kissinger '50, a former professor of Government. Do we want heartless war criminals like Bundy and Kissinger anywhere in the army...
...burden here is on the President to define exactly what it is about his office that court process commanding the production of evidence cannot reach there. To be accurate, court process in the form of a subpoena duces tecum has already issued to the President, and he acknowledges that... courts possess authority to direct such subpoenas to him. A distinction is drawn, however, between authority to issue a subpoena and authority to command obedience to it. It is this second compulsory process that the President contends may not reach him. The burden yet remains with the President, however, to explain...
...were part of a Machiavellian plot. The conservative opposition agrees; it has a scenario for getting rid of Allende constitutionally. First of all, according to the scenario, continuing economic chaos leads the Congress to censure the President repeatedly. (This requires only a simple majority, which the opposition parties command, not the two-thirds necessary for impeachment.) Military leaders are warned that if they join the Cabinet they may be liable to prosecution for violating their oath to defend the constitution if they help a President who is acting illegally. Allende is eventually humiliated and resigns, to be succeeded...
...forms of life down to the merest microbe are equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes out so that "the heinous crimes of murder and pollution committed by our race may in some small way find redress...