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...Aviv's foreign policy in recent months. And the idea that anti-Semitism could warp people's views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention of the Holocaust obscures how real, timely, and savage hatred for Jews can be. Hitler's genocide has become just another landmark event, and when someone mentions it, instead of gasping "The Horror!" we chronicle...
...large-scale nuclear arms, which by their nature would inflict massive civilian casualties, and more specifically the American strategic option known as "counter-value," which targets political, economic and military institutions in or near urban areas for retaliation. "Under no circumstances may nuclear weapons or other instruments of mass slaughter be used for the purpose of destroying population centers," the document states. It adds an injunction that, if applied, would pose a dilemma for Catholics in the strategic chain of command: "No Christian can rightfully carry out orders or policies deliberately aimed at killing noncombatants...
...angry controversy. State fish and wildlife authorities said that the six days of hunting, during which 880 animals were killed, would not damage a herd that has increased more than tenfold since 1935 to a current population of more than 20,000. But many Down Easters found the slaughter distasteful. Said Outdoorsman John N. Cole, contributing editor of the weekly Maine Times: "The moose is Maine's state animal. If we are going to change that status and hunt it, there ought to be a vote of all the people." A pro-moose outfit called SMOOSA (for Save Maine...
...sells in some Louisiana markets for about $3.50 per lb. Environmentalists protest that legalized harvesting will only serve as a cover for more poaching. But many wildlife experts disagree. They say that any measure that makes the hides plentiful, and thus less valuable, will discourage the kind of senseless slaughter that brought the animals to the verge of extinction a few decades ago. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Boston and). Madeleine Nash/Chicago
...Muslims slaughter Christians, Christians slaughter Muslims, Muslims slaughter other Muslims, and everybody blames the Jews...