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Stockwell said that throughout the Vietnam War. CIA officials tried to rationalize the bloodshed He recalled one high-ranking official telling him. "It isn't our fault these people had the misfortune of being born Vietnamese...
Caught off balance by mounting anger over its butterfingered handling of the affair, the government finally relented. The announcement of rationing, it said in a rare concession of fault, "testified to a lack of sufficient sensitivity to the public reception." More astonishing was what came next in the official communiqué: "The government apologizes to citizens, especially to women, for the trouble and anxiety." Looking for other ways to dampen the protests, Jaruzelski sacked Deputy Minister of Distribution and Services Edward Szymanski. Andrzej Bors, another deputy, was allowed to resign...
...There's no question it was a fault line in 20th century history, nothing this side of it has been the same," comments Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes...
...largest cities (Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia) and 15 others with populations over 100,000 will now be led by blacks. Goode, 45, who has a management degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, dresses in Main Line corporate fashion. He is sober to a fault, relying on position papers far more than polemics. Said Goode after his election: "People will see by my actions that I want to be mayor of all the people...
...through it all there still remains a quiet confidence in Giella, a knowledge that virtually none of this in his fault and that this is just another of life's learning experiences...