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...much travail to make stern judgments. "Jack would have loved it," she said. "It's the great expression of hope that is important. In spite of Jack's discouragement, he always had the idea that things would be all right if there was enough time." As the crush grew greater, Mrs. Kennedy asked where she should go. "Follow me, Mother," said Senator Edward. "I'll take good care...
Yahya and Co. feared that Mujib's ascendancy would mean far greater autonomy for the long-exploited East Pakistanis, and the Pakistani army ruthlessly moved to crush the Bengali movement...
...Gambling is the stand-by and the foundation [of organized crime]. From it come the corrupt politicians and policemen, the bribes and the payoffs, and sometimes murder. If you could crush gambling, you would put the Mob out of business. You'd have them back on the pushcarts as it was in the old days...
Perhaps because what they flee from is even worse. Each has his own horror story of rape, murder or other atrocity committed by the Pakistani army in its effort to crush the Bengali independence movement. One couple tells how soldiers took their two grown sons outside the house, bayoneted them in the stomach and refused to allow anyone to go near the bleeding boys, who died hours later. Another woman says that when the soldiers came to her door, she hid her children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding...
...knows rape when he sees it, and he sees it. The Nazis abused German almost to death, he argued in Language and Silence. In Extraterritorial, he warns that a more current threat, "the drift and boredom of semiliteracy" -man's marriage of convenience to his words, threatens to crush the life out of all civilized languages...