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...vain. My definition of "dying in vain" includes being killed in your bed without knowing you are in danger and without firing a shot. In the future, whenever the U.S. undertakes a mission into a hostile area, the Government should plan for the inevitable risks. Let's leave senseless martyrdom to others...
...fighting continued, the big losers were clearly the Syrians. Damascushas 30,000 soldiers in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Initial pleas by the Damascus government for a cease-fire were ignored. At one point, Amal Leader Nabih Berri ordered his men to "stand fast. Fight until victory or martyrdom...
...symbol of the peasants' martyrdom was provided by a Christian Science Monitor correspondent who visited the Ukraine in 1933. On the road he noticed that an icon, hung in the traditional way at the entrance of a village, had been disfigured. The face of Christ had been obliterated; only the crown of thorns remained. The image may stand for all the innocents who perished on the Soviet land. Now, 50 years after they were effaced from memory, Conquest has succeeded in restoring their human faces...
...part, Khomeini remains determined to continue the costly war "to the frontiers of martyrdom." The only other resolution would come from a decisive victory by one side or the other. But even in the event of a Basra offensive, military analysts predict, Iran will still prove unable to win the war and Iraq unlikely to lose it. The only certainty is more blood, and then more...
...white minority government is committed to peaceful transition to a non-discriminatory system, why have they answered peaceful protest with brutal repression? They have presented Black South Africans with a clear choice: resist violent oppression with peaceful martyrdom or resist it with violence. To advocate peaceful resistance in South Africa is simply inconsistent with meaningful opposition to apartheid. The time has come to decide which violence to support in South Africa--to oppose revolution at this point is only to sanction further repression...