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...high-powered cars and gas did not offer comparable hazards to those of the ads for cigarettes. "The distinction," said the court, "is not apparent to us, any more than we suppose it is to the asthmatic in New York City, for whom increasing air pollution is a mortal danger." The FCC must now reconsider...
Calley has also developed a mortal fear of accidental death, not for the usual reason but because the world might think he was a coward who took his own life. "If I got killed in my car on the way to Atlanta," he explains, "everyone would think Calley copped out. I had a room in Delmonico's Hotel in New York once with a floor-to-ceiling window. I was afraid to go to sleep at night because I thought I might sleepwalk through one of those 18th-floor windows and everybody would think Calley committed suicide...
According to a report in the Chicago Daily News, if the South Vietnamese can achieve their goal they will have dealt the North Vietnamese a "mortal blow" because Hanoi's supplies would not reach the thousands of troops to be supported in Cambodia and South Vietnam...
...Phase II (small-unit guerrilla war) to Phase III (large-unit warfare). One objective would be to hit the Saigon regime at a time when the U.S. was able to throw few troops to its support. The other objective, in this hypothesis, would be to inflict a mortal political wound on Nixon by means of Tet-style attacks, thus paving the way for the election of a new President inclined to a hastier exit from South Viet...
...longtime foe of the death penalty, Rockefeller announced his new decision with obvious feeling: "What earthly mortal has the omnipotence to say who among us shall live and who shall die? I do not. Moreover, 1 cannot and will not turn my back on lifelong Christian teachings and beliefs, merely to let history run out its course on a fallible and failing theory of punitive justice." He urged other Governors to follow his lead "so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice...