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...coldest day in Rex Scouten's life may also have been his best. He came to the capital as a Secret Service agent out of Detroit to help in Harry Truman's 1949 Inauguration. He shivered as he stood by the Inaugural stand. Yet the great celebration awed the Michigan farm boy, who recalled last week, "I never thought I would ever get to Washington." He has been there, at the very center, ever since...
...humane, which means skeptical and capable of moral ambivalence, and at the same time try to combat evil? How can one stand zealously against fanaticism? How can one fight without becoming a fighter? How can one struggle against evil without catching it? Deal with history, without becoming yourself exposed to the poisonous effect of history? Three months ago, in Vienna, I saw a street demonstration of environmentalists protesting against scientific experiments on guinea pigs. They carried placards with images of Jesus Christ surrounded by suffering guinea pigs. The inscription read: HE LOVED THEM TOO. Maybe he did, but some...
...Administration's attentiveness to abuses in friendly regimes was underscored last week when it presented a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva condemning violent acts of repression by Augusto Pinochet's military junta in Chile. It was the Administration's strongest stand to date against the regime, which came to power 13 years ago. The same day, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker implied that the U.S. favored black "majority rule" in South Africa and called guerrillas in the African National Congress "freedom fighters," a term Reagan has used only for anti-Communist insurgents. But when Crocker...
...flight attendants to replace the strikers. Says he: "The company cannot exist without these cuts. We've got guts. We're not going to chicken out." If the unions reject his demands, Icahn has threatened to sell all or part of TWA. Says he: "I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death. If we can't make money, I will cash in my chips." But Icahn has worked his way into a trap: he could walk away right now only by taking a huge loss. The 16 million TWA shares for which he paid...
...squabbling, neither Barbara Johnson nor the children are likely to be called to the stand. Some observers wonder what the children have to gain in their challenge, since dozens of the preceding wills also slighted them. They claim their fight will benefit their father's philanthropic interests, which were dramatically undercut only in the last will. But the speculation is that they really expect a settlement offer to forestall years of legal delays. Meanwhile, Judge Lambert has asked for the jury's patience as they examine this complex test of wills, in which "we are all working hard." Shoveling dirt...