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...with it. To be sure, further responsibility for the My Lai disaster should be established by trials of some of Calley's superiors. The big picture, though, may never be illuminated by a court. Military courts, for example, may not try men who have left the service or even compel their testimony to much avail. Also, it is impractical to ask a military jury of career officers to judge command practices in Viet Nam when their verdict could affect their chances of promotion and the morale of the whole Army. Calley's jurors dealt solely with his case; that...
...said last week that "the responsibility for the decision not to compel the unauthorized occupants to vacate Lawrence Hall was chiefly mine...
According to Schweitzer, Restaurant Associates opposes unionization because "it would compel us to define employees' positions and limit any flexibility in their duties...
...indeed impossible for anyone to spend twenty-four consecutive hours in this country without recognizing the compelling logic and irresistible force of what Sartre has called 'an anti-racist racism." It is the necessary moment of negativity, the "only route which can lead to the abolition of racism." A necessary moment, because, although all the oppressed classes as a whole are victims of a predatory society, nonetheless "the black man is a victim of oppression inasmuch as he is black, in his role as a colonized or as a deported African. And since he is oppressed in his race...
...following the recommendation of a presidential emergency board. In return, the lines want an increase in productivity and an end to such wasteful featherbedding practices as changing train crews every 100 miles and paying crewmen extra money for operating a walkie-talkie. Many of these work rules compel the ailing lines to carry thousands of unneeded workers at an annual cost of hundreds of millions of dollars...