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...Branfman ends his book by quoting without comment a May 1971 letter to Michigan Senator Robert Griffin from David M. Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Con gressional Relations: "The rules do not permit attacks on nonmilitary targets and place out-of-bounds all inhabited villages . . . We deeply regret the fate of all victims of the war, both those killed by North Vietnamese action and those whose lives have been lost or dis rupted as a consequence of the defense of their country...
...matter of eternal regret that Shakespeare never wrote a middle play to go with the other two. For it was during the interviewing months that Antony first met the Egyptian queen and allowed his professional career and moral duty to deteriorate. Here lay the stuff of real drama, the material for a play that could have been greater than either of the two Shakespeare left...
...kept putting my wife under a pedestal." True, he has enjoyed outsize success, but Allen is 5 ft. 6 in. and 122 Ibs.; almost everything he tries on is too large. His new book, Getting Even, contains a capsule biography of the author. The last line: "His one regret in life is that he is not someone else...
...stream of delegations, mostly of young people, called at the Israeli embassy in Tokyo to apologize. Kyoto University President Toshio Maeda, summoned to the Ministry of Education, bowed low to express regret and admit that he was "at a loss how to apologize to the nation for the fact that two of the three culprits have been students at our university." Education Minister Saburo Takami, in turn, apologized for shortcomings in the educational system, while Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda spoke of the dishonor to the nation...
...Picture the satisfaction of one Connecticut housewife, for example, who bid for a three-year-old G.E. refrigerator and got it for $50. At the same sale she picked up a Kenmore washer with a new motor for $40 and a 3-h.p. lawn mower for $30. Her only regret : "I missed a Chevy pickup truck that went...