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...Beirut suburb last week, as a means of forcing Jerusalem to close the building and bring home the 30 officials who worked there. Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami had been pressing Israel for months to shut the office, but Shamir had refused to abandon what amounted to the last shred of the May 17, 1983, withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor Begin...
Days after the slaughter, the scene remained so ghastly that the eye instinctively sought out relics of life among the debris. Here was a dog tag bent out of shape by the blast, there a shred of a letter or birthday card from home. Scattered everywhere were photographs: of uniformed sons between doting parents, of laughing girlfriends and smiling wives, of babies newly born. The personal effects made the rows of bodies laid out on the ground and covered with blankets even more poignant, for they were reminders that each Marine pulled out of the rubble had his own private...
Wall Street welcomed the news, which eliminated one last shred of doubt over the AT&T breakup. On the day of the company's announcement, AT&T shares were the most actively traded on the New York Stock Exchange; their price jumped some $2, to about $63. When the divestiture occurs, stockholders will still have the same number of shares in the new AT&T as they had in the old company. In addition, investors will receive one share in each of the seven new regional companies for every ten AT&T shares they now hold...
...editorial majority recognizes McCloy's responsibility for "whatever shred" of humaneness the camp may have had--but one must not forget also to recognize his responsibility for the considerable inhumanness that he was in a position to rectify, and failed to. To refer to McCloy's actions and failure to act as a mere "failing" is tragic understatement...
...furthermore unclear to what extent McCloy influenced these policies. As assistant secretary of War, he oversaw the internment program, but no historical evidence credits him with the idea. And Brinkley, in his Harper's article, credits McCloy for whatever shred of humanness the program may have had. The refusal to bomb Auschwitz was again in the hands of higher military personnel, and Roosevelt and Churchill themselves. An American review board initiated the commutation of Nazi sentences; McCloy mainly followed its instructions...