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...accept the idea that it owes most of what it has, including its continued existence, to the fighting men of another nation, particularly when those men often show hostility rather than sympathy. G.I.s in the field frequently find it impossible to distinguish between "bad" and "good" Vietnamese; as a result, they often callously mistreat all of them. Few American soldiers are in Viet Nam because they want to be, and many take out their resentments on their not-so-friendly hosts. "They're all gooks," says a sergeant at Tay Ninh, using the derogatory term once reserved...
...more acceptable to kill "beater" seals than younger pups? "Well," explained Jack Davis, "Mother has left, and the animal is no longer as cute as it was. . ." Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pointed out that the ban on clubs may result in less humane methods of killing. "But those who protest," he noted candidly, "won't be shown the same photographs of baby seals with their big blue or brown eyes...
...than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety changes. He also urged his Starfighter pilots to "fly, fly, fly." Today, his men average 500 to 1,000 hours in the air instead of fewer than 200, the figure when he took over. As a result, Steinhoff now has enough confidence in the Starfighter and his pilots' skills to have ordered 50 more of the planes to carry the Luftwaffe into the 1970s...
...Gordon, a self-styled "leftist socialist" who went to China in November 1965 to edit and translate revolutionary tracts and literature for Peking's Foreign Language Press, also made one costly error. Preparing to leave China in November 1967, he packed some notebooks in his suitcases. As a result of this "smuggling," he lived with his wife and son for two years like characters in an existential drama, locked in a single hotel room...
...three occasions in 1963, Atlanta Lawyer Robert B. Troutman Jr. spoke to his friend, President John F. Kennedy, about a matter of interest to the Southern Railway Co. As a result, Kennedy asked his staff to discuss the case with the Justice Department, which decided to support the company in a suit against the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eventually the ICC withdrew an order concerning Southern's grain freight rates that the company believed was not in the public interest...