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...American soldiers who carried out these men's orders. Vietnam was a strange land where they killed people with whom they had no reasonable quarrel, and where 55,000 of them were killed in their turn...
...frankest talk of all, however, occurred in Jerusalem in what Kissinger likened to "a family quarrel, loud and noisy." The Secretary outlined the effect of recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at his candor. Kissinger's remarks were directly aimed at Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Israel's most adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington...
...Jouvenet and Charles De La Fosse, all worked under Rubens' shadow. So did François Boucher in the late 18th century, and a further succession of painters, culminating in the 19th with Eugene Delacroix. "What a magician! I get out of sorts with him at times. I quarrel with him because of his heavy forms, his lack of science and elegance. But how far he is above all those little qualities which make up the whole baggage of others ..." And the view Delacroix expressed of Rubens, as a demonic, fertilizing agent, descending on art as Zeus came down...
Biblical controversy also rages outside church doors. In Kanawha County, W. Va., the entire public school system has been disrupted this fall because of parental objections to textbooks. While complaints have been raised about patriotic, sexual and racial contents, the quarrel with the textbooks is very deeply a biblical issue. Fundamentalists all, the parents contend that the schoolbooks breed doubt of the Bible's literal truth. One contested passage compares the scriptural account of Daniel in the lion's den to the old tale of Androcles and the lion. Another suggests that the biblical story of the Tower of Babel...
Curiously, the trustbusters have doubts about whether or not a Bell breakup would improve the economics or quality of communications service. They do not seriously quarrel with Bell's argument that the industry as presently structured has produced the world's best telephone service, and at fairly reasonable costs. They also concede that Bell profits have not been inordinate, in fact have remained relatively static in terms of return on invested capital. Bell's return has remained in the 7% to 7.6% range for more than ten years...