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Some antiwar partisans in the U.S. seized on the event to support their theme. Senator George McGovern suggested that the massacre was the result of "the futility and uselessness of this war." But Americans and others have committed brutal acts in other wars as well, wars with a deeper outline and purpose. Some critics abroad glibly started making comparisons with Nazi atrocities. Such comparisons are obviously spurious, if only because Lidice and Babi Yar were caused by a deliberate national policy of terror, not by the aberrations of soldiers under stress. Still, it will not be easy for Americans...
...blows of what Ted Kennedy called "some awful curse" began falling. Joe Jr., whom the ambassador was quite consciously raising to be President, died when his plane exploded over England in 1944. At the same time, Jack lay in a Boston naval hospital recuperating from injuries suffered as a result of the sinking of PT109. A few weeks later, daughter Kathleen's husband, the Marquess of Hartington, died leading an infantry charge in Normandy. Kathleen was to be killed four years later in a plane crash in France. A continuing heartbreak for Rose and Joe was their oldest daughter...
...Observatory Director" clearly rejected any move to cut off defense funds. Goldberg said that, as an individual, he would rather see basic research funded by civilian agencies. But he does not want to see a cut in the defense money and the losses in basic astronomy research which would result, he indicated...
...smashed while some of his friends read poems (his and theirs). Brautigan came back to the mike every now and then to lead the festivities. The same poem was read by about twenty people for an experiment in sound, and five or six distinct poems, not twenty, was the result...
...Noel F. McGinn, lecturer on Education and chairman of the Ed School committee on the Project, yesterday criticized this proposal. Its adoption, he said, would result in "a tendency to do what the sponsor wants in order to get funding. The University must be a free and responsible party in research." Outside consultants could advise an independent policy board on technical matters, McGinn added...