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RICHARD VON Weizsacker seems to suffer from a double standard when it comes to his criminal father. Those who support the Harvard honor point to a speech he gave in 1985 after President Reagan agreed to visit Bitburg. In that speech, he appeared to acknowledge his own guilt and that of his generation...
...surely no son should be punished--or even refused an honor--for the sins of his father. So let us catalogue the sins of the son and compare them with his virtues. Richard von Weizsacker was certainly no conscientious objector to Nazi aggression. He was a soldier who participated in the brutal invasion of Poland which commenced both World War II and Hitler's genocidal program. After the war, he helped his father lie to the Neurenberg tribunal by denying that he knew what was going on at Auschwitz. He helped his father construct a perjurious and unsuccessful defense which...
...Soviet Union at the Yuri Gagarin Aviation College. As of last week, however, Del Pino was anything but admired by Cuba's Communist rulers. Characterizing his defection as "strange and treacherous conduct," the Armed Forces Ministry said it has "irreparably stained his life, his history and his honor...
This is, perhaps, the implicit lesson of almost all action films. But most of them have permitted their heroes to reclaim their honor at the end. The good guys are allowed to think their fall from purity and motive was a temporary aberration. There is no such escape for Eliot Ness. Despite its driving pace, style and wit, this film's pervasive mood is a strange and haunting sadness. The Untouchables is, of all things, touching...
Rats. Dropped out of the White House daily news synopsis, denied discussions with John Dean on ethics in government, losing those jolly sessions with Haldeman and John Ehrlichman on presidential duty and honor...