Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cruel twist on Tocqueville's prescient forecast. It seems now that the only political issues that concern us are those that relate to our personal lives. If it can't happen to us, if we don't see it on the daytime soaps, then it simply doesn't matter. We truly have reached a sad state of affairs when we adopt so narrow a world-view...
...exactly cautious in his dealings with the purported Saudi prince. When he was first approached through an intermediary in 1984, he made only a cursory check of public sources about the Saudi royal family. Even though he could find no Prince Ibrahim, North did not pursue the matter. Rather than deal with the prince directly, however, he steered him to Richard Miller, a public relations agent and associate of Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell. Last week Channell pleaded guilty to conspiring with North and Miller to raise money for the contras through a fraudulent tax- exempt foundation...
Investigators went to North about the matter in July 1985. The NSC aide asked them to leave the situation alone for several days, the FBI later reported, "due to the critical timing of the prince's possible but remote large donation." The prince, North said, was in Europe "arranging transfer of funds to Nicaraguan freedom fighters." North told the agents that he had discussed the matter with Reagan and McFarlane a month earlier...
...blur the distinctions. They may go further and remind France that the nation was itself guilty of torture and murder during the Algerian conflict. War is war, they may say. In war everything is allowed. As Barbie remarked to one journalist, "The point is to win. It doesn't matter...
...fact, The State of France v. Klaus Barbie is not a matter of war. It is a matter of truth. In Lyons, Barbie will have to answer not for his war crimes but for his crimes against humanity. For these there is no statute of limitations. He will have to explain, for example, why he condemned the Jewish children of Izieu. Listen to the words of one of those children, eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein, in a letter scrawled to God before she was taken on the road that led to the gas chambers: "It is thanks to You that...