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...once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between the lines, I can't help thinking that we could be saving hundreds of thousands of lives if an independent relief organization existed...
...could not escape marginally valuable autograph sessions with schoolchildren well below voting age; Metzenbaum had no such time-wasting troubles. Glenn had opposed the state Democratic organization six years ago. "John doesn't even bother to see the county chairman when he is in town," a Metzenbaum aide ob served. Glenn's opponent had managed two tough, victorious campaigns for Senator Stephen Young and made good use of the party pros...
Flip came to my aid. "You have to admit that the influence of this kind of man at the University is pretty ob...
...Supreme Court, the government yesterday argued against conscientious objection against a specific war. Solicitor Gen. Erwin N. Griswold said, "The Constitution does not set up freedom of conscience. It does not equate conscience with religion." Selective conscientious ob-jection. Griswold argued, would disrupt American society...
They blamed him for the teachers' strike, the sanitation workers' strike, bad snow removal, and even dirty streets. They blamed him for high taxes, high prices, deteriorating neighborhoods, loss ob jobs, smog, pollution, traffic jams, subway malfunctions, and once, even for turning clocks backwards for daylight saving time...