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...Their grief is more private than any political platform would depict. The women are surprisingly uninterested by the perpetrator or the political implications of the event. “What made me fall in love with them is that they’re not angry. They’re not Israeli in that way. They are accepting it,” Ben-Dor says. “They’re such noble women with such big hearts,” she adds...
...Once Widowed” achieves an astonishing emotional proximity to the women’s grief. Ben-Dor claimed that the trusting relationship established early on between the filmmaker and her subjects arose from natural rapport. “When you really take interest in someone, he opens up. I was very passionately interested in their stories,” she says...
This does not make the 18-year-old who died defending the Nazi regime a criminal. Nor does it lessen the grief of his mother. But it does lessen the honor due him from the President of the United States. Even among the dead, we are required to make distinctions. It is not just grotesquely wrong to say, as the President said last week, that German soldiers are as much victims as those whom the Germans tortured and murdered. There is also a distinction to be drawn between Hitler's soldiers and the Kaiser's. Mitterrand's choice of Verdun...
Every local station with a hostage family in the area got into the act, and the most touching or most mawkish family response made it to the networks. George Will complained about the "pornography of grief" in hostage-family coverage, and on a talk show he asked Secretary of State George Shultz whether "we are so paralyzed by 40 lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such...
...Napa, California, U.S. Remaking Morocco Re TIME's report on investigations of the bombings in Madrid last March 11 [March 21]: I was disappointed by the story's implication that Morocco's policies may exacerbate terrorism. Moroccans continue to be saddened by the March 11 tragedy and share the grief of their Spanish brothers and sisters. The Moroccan government has embarked on a bold social, political and economic reform program to enhance freedom and opportunity. Last year King Mohammed VI addressed a council of religious scholars and announced a plan to revamp the domain of religious affairs to shield Morocco...