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...more dangerous medium if its fondness for violent action always produced a hot response in its watchers. Sometimes it does: the picture of police dogs in Alabama changed history. But repeated scenes of snipers ducking around doorways in Belfast eventually generate a feeling that this is an interminable quarrel. The endless car bombings in Beirut, the sight of young armed soldiers, arouse the feeling that we just do not belong in Lebanon...
...accord, drafted with U.S. help following the Nazi Holocaust, makes the mass murder of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups an international crime. Over the years, U.S. opponents of the treaty, most of them Senate conservatives, have said they had no quarrel with its sentiments but argued that the pact would permit foreigners to meddle in American domestic affairs. Last May the Senate passed a resolution that allows the U.S. to exempt itself from World Court jurisdiction over treaty cases. That provided the cover Congress needed and finally cleared the way for the U.S. officially to endorse...
Wiesenthal, who is 77 years old, said he continues his global pursuit partly to deny the perpetrators of the Holocaust peace of mind. "When two Nazis have a quarrel, one threatens the other: I will go to Wiesenthal and I will tell him about you," Wiesenthal said...
...smooth sailing. A bomb scare was taken so seriously that a nervous crew dumped a cargo of slot machines into the sea rather than risk the chance of hidden explosives among the crates. The ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground that the ship had sailed from its port...
...sure, a ripple of anti-American feeling did surface in Italy, but it has remained limited to an attempt by some 200 protesters to organize an anti- U.S. demonstration at Sigonella. Italian officials dismiss such protests. Said one defense official: "It's like a quarrel between husband and wife. Our ties are too deep, too historic to have been damaged by one incident." For all the appearance of Italian instability, some things never change. As the governing crisis proved once more, no postwar Italian government has ever fallen because of differences over foreign policy...