Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debt to Vietnam--the war brought too many beyond the reach of debtors and creditors. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that--sometimes, as in the bombing of a neutral Cambodia, unknowingly--let its government commit barbarities in its name...
...that if South Korea is attacked, the U.S. will come to its aid "in accordance with its [U.S.] constitutional processes." Nonetheless, in the wake of the Communist victories in Indochina, Seoul is nervous about American reliability. "We hope the U.S. will demonstrate by deeds its firm determination not to commit the same failures in the Korean peninsula as it did in the Indochina peninsula," said a recent National Assembly resolution. A Harris poll late last year, however, reported that if a new Korean war broke out, 65% of Americans would oppose U.S. intervention...
...would be simple to blame the school's problems on integration. Black students make up 23% of the enrollment and commit a disproportionate share of the violence. But Evanston Township High School has always been integrated. In 1963, for example, when 18% of the students were black, there were few problems and there was need for only one daytime security guard. This year, by contrast, the school is spending nearly $160,000 for security, money that otherwise would go for education. The exit doors bristle with electronic locks. Eight plainclothes officers with two-way radios patrol the halls, while...
...their trap, rather self-indulgently, in the South of France. They are foiled, as they seem to be regularly in thrillers and less often in real life. The details are not especially interesting, but one bit of irony is worth mentioning. A terrorist, Selim, is found dead. Did he commit suicide to avoid capture? Certainly not, his English adversary concludes; no terror ist has ever been held for longer than eight months in a European jail. Why die when...
...that the United States, always ready to swiftly commit troops around the world, did not have better diplomatic ties to Cambodia and that China was not openly willing to help with negotiations. The lives that were lost, however, make the Mayaguez incident not a success, but a failure in diplomatic relations and a failure on the part of both countries' leaders to consider the lives of their people...