Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are wise smiles. One Hasidic master boldly tells God that he owes something to sinful man: "Without our sins, what would You do with Your pardon?" There is good counsel: "Every man must free himself from Egypt every day." And there are hard sayings: "Either God is king of this world and I am not doing enough to serve Him, or He is not-and then it is my fault...
...Lubavitch Hasidism, Microbiologist Velvl Greene of Minneapolis, was won over simply by prayer. A young Lubavitch missionary, in the midst of a ten-minute interview with the busy Greene, suddenly looked out the window at the setting sun, realized that it was time for prayer, and, asking Greene's pardon, abruptly stopped the conversation. Putting on a gartel (a cord round the waist that symbolizes the biblical "girding of the loins"), he turned to the window to pray. Greene was so impressed that he invited the young man back for further conversations and gradually became a fully observant Lubavitcher...
There is a kind of vagrant esprit among the exiles that keeps negative comment or complaint to a minimum. If indeed an amnesty or pardon were offered, many would doubtless elect to come home, particularly as the years accumulate. As Mike Powers, spokesman for the American Deserters Committee in Sweden, says: "Sure we want to go home, but we won't until the U.S. stops all its bombings, until there's total withdrawal from Indochina and the people there are left in peace to decide their own future...
...summer alone would seem enough to cause an upswing in student activity. The release of the Pentagon Papers revealed clearly and publicly the calculated cynicism of our Vietnam policy. Medina was acquitted of all charges stemming from My Lai, and Calley seemed to be lined up for a pardon. Nixon, ignoring the PRG peace plan, decided to let the killing continue rather than set a date for the American withdrawal which he has promised since before his election. And two days before Fall registration, a new bombing campaign began in the North: "The biggest air raids," a straight-faced television...
...alas but cannot help or pardon...