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Some historians argue that the conflict blasted away the remaining social and institutional barriers to American capitalism. Others say the war lay the seeds for decades of Southern poverty and deprivation. Still others describe it as a long step in a national march towards homogeneity, toward a cultural state in which most regional differences have died, while the lowest standards live...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Janice F. Berry charged during the trial that Sachs lay down in the elevator and refused to move as police officers attempted to escort him from the building...
Coach Frank McLaughlin last night could afford to sit back, rotate some players and let the clock finish off the game and the losing era. Junior forward Tom Clarke had the honor of hitting a lay-up at the buzzer, guaranteeing him a smidgen of immortality. After the sparse crowd filed out, and while a baby McLaughlin and a baby Fleming played on the deserted bleachers, one of the old wooden backboards, as if of its own volition, sank slowly into the ready position. Intramurals...
...necessary to prevent a Communist takeover in El Salvador." He added: "We are prepared to draw the line here, here and now." Nevertheless, Percy warned Haig that the U.S. must also insist that the junta step up its search for the murderers of three American nuns and a lay religious worker killed in El Salvador last December...
...pages; $7.95, paperback) revives the long-dormant question: How could the democracies of the West refuse to admit people whose need for sanctuary was a matter of life and death? In this expanded and updated edition, Historian Feingold sifts through the memorandums of state departments to find that guilt lay not only with insensitive agencies and nations but with some American Jewish organizations, which were aroused too late. "We fell victim to our faith in mankind," recalls library Editorial Chairman Alexander Donat, "our belief that humanity had set limits to the degradation and persecution of one's fellow...