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...best way to fight prejudice and bigotry is to teach children what terrible harm prejudice and bigotry have done," says Ryan, who participates in teacher training sessions organized by the group. "What we ought to be doing is educating children about the Holocaust...
Although the article portrays the Law School in a stormy light, many said there is no harm done in exposing the truth...
...Tuesday Iraq declared a "cease-fire" as a gesture of "good intentions" toward incoming U.S. President Bill Clinton. It claimed to be sticking to it even after U.S. jets, fired on while flying through the northern exclusion zone both Thursday and Friday, attacked radar sites and missile emplacements with HARM missiles and cluster bombs. Saddam's intentions had become more menacing by Saturday night, when Iraqi antiaircraft batteries fired on three U.S. fighters patrolling in the southern no-fly zone. The pilots returned fire and made it safely back to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk...
However, in March 1987, on the day of sentencing, then-Secretary of Defense Weinberger submitted an affidavit to the court stating that "It is difficult for me, even in the so-called year of the spy, to conceive a greater harm to national security than that caused by [Pollard]." In discussions with reporters, Weinberger had also said that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea...
...iron fist? Could Pollard really have been U.S. national enemy #1? Soviet, Iraqi or Cuban spies did not represent "a greater harm to national security"--the accusation Weinberger leveled at Pollard? After all, it's no secret that all nations--even allies--spy on one another. In addition, the U.S. and Israel had already signed two intelligence exchange agreements to share information collected in their respective spy networks. Pollard relayed to the Israelis information regarding Iraq, Syria and the PLO in Tunis--material necessary for Israel's survival and not intended to harm the U.S. That doesn't vindicate Pollard...