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After a two-hour talk Saturday with Syria's Foreign Minister, Jackson told reporters the Syrians feared that their freeing Goodman would encourage U.S. air missions over Lebanon. The Foreign Minister was vague about when-or whether-Jackson would meet Assad...
Then Jackson was shuttled to a Damascus military compound. He was the P.O.W.'s second American visitor in a week: Ambassador Robert Paganelli had delivered Goodman a Christmas dinner...
...Federal Government launched a program last fall to gas chickens-more than 7 million so far-in an effort to contain an influenza virus in Pennsylvania, it said it had "depopulated" the birds. "We use that terrible word depopulation to avoid saying slaughter," explained a federal information officer, David Goodman...
...with many words, though, the original meaning has faded, and Webster's now defines depopulate only as "to reduce greatly the population of." Even that is probably too clear and specific. When Goodman uses the word not as something done to an area but as something done to the victims, then its only function is to be long and Latinate and abstract. That makes it suitable as a euphemism for a blunter word, like kill...