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...record portion of the seminar last Monday night, O'Neill said the Nixon administration has been "corrupt and venal," and he called for the president's resignation in the "best interest of the country...
...forces outnumber the rebels by a ratio of at least 4 to 1, but the government troops are poorly paid and their commanders are often corrupt. Says one American expert: "There is no leadership. The army has no idea what to do." Moreover, the quality of the government's equipment leaves a bit to be desired. As one Pentagon official puts it: "The Cambodians are fighting with the biggest museum of junk you ever saw." Their air force, for instance, consists of 20 or so pre-Korean-War-vintage T-28 fighter-bombers, a few DC-3s that have...
Saddles is about a hip black sheriff who must overcome racial prejudice and the machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. With very little help, he manages to save the citizens of Rock Ridge from being driven away so that a railroad may pass more cheaply through their land. But so what? The important thing is that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro...
...parts of the address that O'Neill later put on the record, O'Neill said that the Nixon administration has been "corrupt and venal," and he called for Nixon's resignation in the "best interests of the country...
Solzhenitsyn perceives that an entire nation has been debased by four decades of totalitarianism far more oppressive than Czarist authoritarianism. Ordinary people have been rendered indifferent to injustice and pitiless toward the suffering of others. Among bureaucrats, the absolute exercise of power in the past continues to corrupt absolutely in the present. "Thus," he mourns, "have we been driven to become savages...