Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington last week. "The climate will never be better." With these words, Rogers announced that in early May he will make his first official visit to the Middle East, traveling to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Israel. The State Department insisted that Rogers' visit would not commit U.S. prestige to the intricate task of finding acceptable solutions. Even so, the presence of a Secretary of State in the Middle East for the first time since John Foster Dulles visited there in 1953 puts pressure on the U.S. to help bring about some kind of results...
Then on Feb. 17, Font filed charges against Major General Samuel W. Koster for "dereliction of duty" for allowing war crimes to be committed under his command, and against Seaman for "conspiracy to commit war crimes" and for "dereliction of duty" for allowing his men to commit war crimes in 1967, with regard to Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, which he planned and executed...
...also increase the worry on all sides that time is running out for Middle East diplomacy and that fighting between Egypt and Israel may break out again. The Egyptians have been on record for eight weeks as going along with Swedish Mediator Gunnar Jarring's effort to extract commitments by both sides (basically Egypt would recognize Israel and agree to a binding peace; Israel would commit itself to withdrawal from all occupied territory). Jerusalem, on the other hand, has steadfastly refused to agree to full withdrawal...
...during the past few years. Nabokov's Ada, though not quite Pharaonic, elegantly proffered a half sister as better than none. Gore Vidal diddled the subject in Two Sisters, and if there was a moral to the convoluted enigmas of Anthony Burgess's MF, it was never commit incest without a conundrum...
...minor strictures against general officers, compared with the harsher treatment of a young platoon leader, made the Army vulnerable to the suggestion that it had singled Calley out to carry the can for My Lai. Two sergeants in Calley's company were court-martialed for assault with intent to commit murder and acquitted...