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...stated that alternative beverages were being promoted at the University of Virginia. The Jefferson Society has directed me to inform you that the society does not have an alternative beverage policy, nor will it institute one. The society was founded in 1825, and has a long tradition of alcohol consumption. Teetotaling is a flagrant slap in the face of tradition...
Even more striking than the Khmer indifference toward life was their seeming indifference toward death. "When a family member dies, they take little notice," said a nurse. "They see death every day. They're very tough." One young man made no move to inform camp authorities when his wife died of cerebral malaria. As her body lay beside him beneath a blanket, he stared tearlessly into space. A Khmer Rouge soldier explained that the Angka never allowed them to cry. "We were not even allowed to say we would miss the people who died...
...Iranians it is a question of a simple exchange of prisoners. Again, the problem is not whether it was legal to seize the embassy personnel. The recognition that that was not legal is not now an issue; rather, it is concern for the lives of the captives which should inform our response...
...been considering "the inevitable step" of allowing the Shah to enter the U.S. The first cable, which was sent by Henry Precht, director of the State Department's Office of Iranian Affairs to Laingen in Tehran on Aug. 2, proposed that sometime before January 1980 the U.S. should inform the Iranian government of the "intense pressures for the Shah to come here, pressures which we are resisting despite our traditional open-door policy...
...curb that hysteria, and depoliticize the issue, the federal and state officials must draw up inform national regulations. The policy should include a plan for costly on-site waste incineration--a process which many feel may help solve transportation risks--and regional low-level dumping sites. Incoherent federal regulations governing transportation of hazardous materials must be tightened...