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...cultures he knew little about, sifting through thousands of pages of documents, looking for something but not knowing what he would find. He started with the people in the American embassy in Phnom Penh, amazed by the "unanimity with which they spoke" and with what they saw as "callous disregard" for human lives. Somebody in Washington was watching the CIA reports that showed North Vietnamese troops hiding in sanctuaries on the Cambodian side of the border. Somebody decided that the best way to flush the North Vietnamese out was to destroy the sanctuaries. But, as Shawcross demonstrates in Sideshow, they...
Patricia Simon, member of the Gold Star Parents for Amnesty Committee, said she was "sickened" by the "complete disregard for life" that the Carter administration exhibited in proposing the draft. Simon said that because women have not been taught that war and killing are necessary, they will be the ones to stop the draft of men. "The war cycle will be ended either by women or by a nuclear holocaust, and I hope you all feel the obscenity of this way of death," she added...
...Enrico Berlinguer in advocating insubordination to Moscow. It was this same Georges Marchais who, in 1976 at the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, scratched the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" from the official party charter. And had not the PCF repeatedly denounced the Soviet Union for its disregard for human rights? Indeed, since the middle 60s, the party tempered its revolutionary character to achieve greater political integration. In collaborating with the Socialists, the PCF doubled its traditional 20-per-cent working class vote and captured 49 per cent of the French electorate in the last election...
...known to occur in white culture) they would never have been shown on this campus or any other in the country. The callousness of the Peabody, its director, Karlovksy, and others in permitting this material to be presented at Harvard is a reflection of haughty insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feelings of our black students and staff. This attitude has become more and more prevalent around Harvard...
...Allen Counter, associate professor of Biology, last month sent the BSA a letter charging that the film is an example of "insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feeling of our black students and staff." The film shows an African woman performing clitoridectomies on young African girls...