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...most direct precedent traces to 1945, when the U.S. directed the Aluminum Co. of America to split off properties. The key opinion was written by Judge Learned Hand of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who decided that law "did not condone 'good trusts' and condemn 'bad' ones; it forbade...
...What a sense of balance and equity there is at the U.N. and our State Department! Nigerians kill Biafrans, Russia invades Czechoslovakia, Arab terrorists kill Israelis, and Israel bombs airplanes and a terminal without killing one person. Who does the U.N. condemn? Israel. What a travesty of justice...
...stereotype of the Jews as passive victims of others' violence. Israel gives another picture, the picture of the Jews suffering but also resisting. World consciousness has not fully absorbed this change. I have no other explanation for the fact that the Soviet Union, which invaded Czechoslovakia, can condemn alleged Israeli "aggression" at the U.N. without the public gallery bursting into laughter...
...FROM DAMNATION. Certain human deeds, says Berger, in the common experience of mankind seem "not only evil, but monstrously evil." The archetypal example is the Nazi mass execution of the Jews. Man is "constrained to condemn, and condemn absolutely," the villainy of an Eichmann, and that condemnation derives from a belief that when a person commits such crimes, "he separates himself in a final way from a moral order that transcends the human community, and thus invokes a retribution that is more than human...
...special meeting yesterday, the faculty voted 153-18 to "utterly condemn the forcible takeover of the university premises. We demand that the students involved vacate Ford Hall and enter negotiations of any grievance with the university administration...