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Indeed, he's such a true-blue American that his one unfortunate lapse into Spanish lyrics can surely be forgiven. Never mind that it is that same lapse into those foreign words that has prevented him from being forgotten...
When Cordell Hull, F.D.R.'s Secretary of State, talked of the U.N. as a panacea for world problems, of bringing an end to the era of power politics, he could be forgiven because the U.N. did not yet exist...
Forty years later, one cannot be forgiven. What exactly do Pell, Dukakis and the Democrats have in mind? Perhaps they think of the U.N. as some independent world actor. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who spent some time there, had a crisper view. She called it a "Turkish bath" where the Third World can let off steam, denounce the West, air resentments and demand transfers of wealth. Its principal achievement is to generate a billion pages of paper every year. This U.N. is not even able to field peacekeeping forces in precisely the areas, like the Sinai, where they are most needed. When...
...United pilots had never forgiven Ferris for a bitter 1985 labor confrontation. The chairman demanded that United employees accept a two-tier wage system that would relegate newly hired pilots to a lower pay scale. In protest the pilots staged a 29-day strike, but Ferris prevailed and set up the new wage system anyway. He insisted that the carrier needed lower costs to meet the challenge of cut-rate competitors like Texas Air, which through a series of mergers has eclipsed Allegis to become the largest U.S. airline company, with both Continental and Eastern now under its wing...
...hope I can be forgiven if I take this a little personally. As a (relatively) conservative student active in political organizations here on campus, I resent the implication that I and my fellow student "new" conservatives are racists. Normally, one would hope, such grossly unfair and provacative accusations would simply be ignored, but this kind of charge is not new, and (unhappily) has become something of a staple of liberal campus politics...