Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 20 enemy soldiers in a fit of rage after seeing his friends destroyed: why his mother who brought him up as a Christian is so proud of his being honored for killing: and why the medal should transform him overnight from a down-and-out "spade" to a privileged citizen estranged from the rest of the poor black...
...book suffers from one major problem of translation--not of the text itself, but of the wider context of the story. Few readers here will be able to fit this tale into any familiar setting--Norway is just too far away, as is the rural life Anna depicts...
...more frightening than all that was Ford's requests for 40,000 American troops in South Vietnam, and for revisions in the 1973 War Powers Act to allow him to conduct the war as he sees fit. American military involvement in Vietnam will only prolong the suffering there and help the wrong side of the war--and with Ford having the power to escalate the war himself, America's involvement could become as pervasive and cruel as it was before...
...time when the warring Arab nations continue to receive tons of Soviet war material for use against Israel, when Arab nations have expanded their economic boycott of Israel to include all companies doing business with her, when the United Nations sees fit to exclude Israel from UNESCO, when, in other words, the Arabs have used their oil power to perpetuate a calculated scheme to isolate Israel in the world community, one comes to the realization that the U.S. should offer Israel the vital means with which she may insure her survival. Such is the case that U.S. support for Israel...
...producing and storing food. Its writers can use their gift to give voices to those who have no voices. As an institution, Harvard can make it an official policy to cut down its consumption of food, especially meat, and to consume less in other ways that it sees fit...