Word: suchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your article on M.I.T.'s Howard Johnson [Nov. 21] has an undemocratic flavor. No one man cools such a potentially explosive situation. By failing to report the actions of other persons in cooling the M.I.T. scene, the story makes Howard Johnson "the winner."
As more and more facts about that dark day came to light last week, even staunch defenders of U.S. policy in Viet Nam and longtime supporters of the armed forces expressed their dismay. A White House statement called such a massacre "abhorrent to the conscience of all the American people...
Each man in such an action sees only a fraction of what happens. Yet many such personal recollections were chilling ones. "Everyone was scared going in?we thought there'd be heavy enemy troops there," recalls Charles A.
The desire to equate all such savagery is tempting to some. Moscow's Trud compared My Lai "to the destruction by the Hitlerites of the Czechoslovak village of Lidice, the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, and to the Nazi atrocities on Soviet soil." A baker in Bonn was overheard...
For one who has faith in a loving Creator, it is the fundamental challenge to divine credibility: centuries of Christian theological cerebration have led to no more satisfying conclusion than that evil truly exists and that in some unknown way it will be conquered and made to serve the hidden...