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...battle conditions? Can a woman be a little bit pregnant? I have just returned from my 40th reunion at West Point with the consoling conviction that the corps today, the current crisis notwithstanding, embraces the same sense of honor that has sustained it for 174 years. The corps will rid itself of the very few who don't measure up to its standards...
...same speech, Mrs. Gandhi proposed a "national fitness" program because "we cannot afford to be a flabby nation-we must get rid of flabbiness in body and mind and be strong in every way." She deplored the fact that women in India, by and large, "have no personality of their own and exist merely to serve the whims of men." Then she turned to the government's stern family planning policy, which aims at reducing the country's growth rate from over 2% to 1.4% by 1980. Among her recommendations: providing a strong program of incentives and "disincentives...
...WEST BANK TRANQUILLITY. The choice we are facing on the West Bank is not a simple one. Our dilemma is, realistically, to make up our minds which is closer: the prospect for peace or for terror and war. Since the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose program is to get rid of Israel, was appointed by the Arabs as their representative for the management of the West Bank, I do not believe the prospects for peace are enhanced. While we are not going to give up an inch of our democratic convictions, we also are not going to give up an inch...
...change of pace, everyone is marched up to the stage, row by row, to confront the crowd, est workers eyeball each trainee from a few feet away, while Ron screams to "get rid of that phony smile, drop that face!" Legs buckle. Four people faint; one throws up. Then two more processes. One on danger: as we lie there for hours, eyes closed, listening to Ron conjure up images of danger, est attendants clump ominously around our bodies. More agonized screaming. Last, a "reverse danger" process. We are told everyone around us-in fact millions of people -are afraid...
...said in a statement to the faculty,"... I have invested far too much time and energy in the appeal to allow it to end in an overly hasty, procedurally defective fashion..." The narrowness of the vote must be taken as a regrettable indication of a desire to be rid of the affair, not to resolve it equitably...