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...Marks seems generally unfamiliar with international law. I would add that the narrowly circumscribed notion of responsibility employed by the commission and apparently subscribed to by Mr. Mak is not only an insult to commonsense, but to international legal principles as well. He might be reminded that German financiers and industrialists, whose contributions to the Nazi war machine were far less direct than the Israelis' contributory role in the Beirut massacres, were indicted and tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Moreover, Article 3(e) of the U.N. Convention on Genocide regards complicity in genocide to be a punishable act; there...
...musty Chaillot theater. In the process of gutting he building's ornate interior during renovations, Lang created huge cost overruns and caused a scandal. Recalls a colleague Utterly: "He turned a great theater into a garage." Then Minister of Culture Michel Guy fired Lang, who capitalized on the insult by joining the Socialist Party. In 1978, Mitterrand, who was still leader of the opposition, made him his cultural adviser...
Proponents of fundamentalist schools have forgotten one of the basic teachings of the Bible, which is that the Christian is to respect and obey the government. In taking an arrogant, self-righteous position, the supporters of Christian schools not only reproach the Bible, but insult those who work in the public schools. The public system does work, but it works better when we stay to build rather than when we desert to experiment...
...think it's an insult to this community for Reagan to come here when his policies have hurt Roxbury and its people so badly," said Julie Buchinski '84, one of the protesters...
Those kind of off-the-cuff remarks belie the President's contention that he is being unfairly chastised. They also constitute a direct insult to people who are forced to live without jobs, food, or hope. After all, Reagan put his hand on a Bible in 1981 and swore to do certain things. If the media now want to call attention to millions of citizens facing despair, starvation, or death by exposure, the President should listen. Rhetorical attempts at martyring himself will not change Reagan's well-deserved image. Nor will they bring the country out of the dire straights...