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...Force and Navy pilots operating in Indochina, including Mr. Nixon's POW pets who were shot down, have murdered, maimed and wounded in indiscriminate bombing, a thousandfold more Indochinese than Calley and his group. This was also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...
...have rulers, officials, students, farmers, laborers, merchants, and soldiers, but to have ten thousand eyes with one sight, ten thousand hands and feet with only one mind, ten thousand ears with one hearing, ten thousand powers with only one purpose of life; then the state is established ten thousandfold strong... When mind touches mind, when power is linked to power, cog to cog, strand around strand, and ten thousand roads meet in one center, this will be a state...
...voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed the lusty laird of Auchinleck from a minor to a major figure in 18th century letters and at the same time multiplied a thousandfold the known facts of his life...
Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...
...Mobile forces, deployed around the world on 24-hr, alert, are backed up by the world's most modern manned bombers; atomic weapons have increased the striking power of U.S. military forces a thousandfold...