Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As if their international image were not tarred enough by the exodus of some 900,000 citizens over the past four years, Hanoi's Communist rulers have now suffered another blow: Hoang Van Hoan, deputy chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly since 1976 and an old comrade...
"Remember our days as of old, except if you have scorned us utterly."
Then why try? Why not let the unbearable past recede into the anaesthesia of history books? "Simply because we can't and still call ourselves human beings," said Wiesel at journey's end. "We do not have this commission simply to remember, but to warn. Last time it...
By its nature, to be sure, the voice of local pride always tends to reek of too much protest. And professional sloganeering is only the froth on the sea of real, continuing chauvinism. The parochial boast occurs everywhere, and its inspiration can be anything: a product, a geographical feature, the...
The fact that the situation has not changed is no cause for alarm. Still, the reality ought to be noted by anybody interested in understanding the mood of the country. President Carter did little harm to anyone but himself in complaining that Washington was an "island," but it might have...