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...reasoned that Sirhan was not only anti-Zionist but "fanatically" against anyone who supports Israel. "Bending over backwards to give him more of a break," Glick voted for life imprisonment on the first ballot. He stayed up all the next night, finally deciding that Sirhan "deserved death for his heinous, dastardly crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Toward the Gas Chamber | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...here and now, severance is a heinous punishment. The university should grant amnesty at this time because its function never was to punish. And these are extraordinary times, when we cannot reject members of our community. We will just have to get along with one another...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I am frightened (yellow); I am saddened (blue) | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...Cleveland judge, four as the city's mayor, ten as Governor of Ohio and twelve as a U.S. Senator, Frank John Lausche achieved a pre-eminence in his state's political pantheon unmatched since the demise of Robert Taft. Lausche also be came crusty, overbearing and - more heinous yet to the Democratic stalwarts who had so long voted him into office -often treated his party like the bastard at the wedding. Last week his inde pendence bore him bitter fruit: Ohio's Democratic voters kicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primaries: Legitimacy Restored | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...call Bonnie and Clyde "ordinary people" because they laughed and occasionally cried is a heinous insult to the meaning of "common man." To applaud the sadists, voyeurs and media manipulators masquerading as directors, actors and writers is as misguided as were the lives of that flagitious couple. Bonnie and Clyde is a victory if the battle was to rape senses, offend dignity, and threaten the thin threads of humanity some of vis are still tenaciously holding on to in spite of the Mr. Beattys of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...found Israel guilty on three progressively perturbing counts. It went to war against his admonition, which was bad enough. It won, which was even worse. But most heinous of all, the victory benefited the image of the U.S. as Israel's main supporter. So, in a long historical ramble on Israel's origins that shocked the French by its antiSemitism, De Gaulle described the lews as "an elite people, sure of themselves and dominating." The state of Israel after 1956, he said, was a "warrior, and determined to enlarge itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Surpassing Himself | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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