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Ramon smiles, sensing the ruse. "Currently, sir, the affair in the Gulf is a private function. Just because the U.S. and all the European members of the U.N. are there, you oughtn't get the idea that it's open to the public. Should the general membership of the U.N. be invited, you will see a notice posted on the bulletin board in the foyer...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Coffee at the U.N. | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...died in 1982, nearly ten years after Harry, and was buried beside him in Independence. "I like the idea," he once told the Boss, "because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into my office. And I can hear you saying, 'Harry--you oughtn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...have never written a trapped housewife novel," she says, but adds. "People have a paranoid image of feminism--a narrow, ideological view. Feminism oughtn't to be an attack on men. I don't buy that line. I thought we were all striving to be free and equal...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Realistic Feminism | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

When asked to justify his opposition to the volunteer army while opposing the slow withdrawal from Vietnam, Kennedy strongly asserted that "we oughtn't have poor men fighting a rich man's war." The immediate effect of a volunteer army, he said, would be that the poor and underprivileged would take combat duty in order to receive higher wages...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Kennedy Tells Students To Shake Off Lethargy | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...reformism. "With a little patience," he points out, "they could have had the same thing at less cost." Says Scherbaum, gently: "You oughtn't to take this business about history so tragically. Spring has no meaning, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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