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...defendants who went on trial in 1975, one died, one was declared medically unfit and four were acquitted for lack of evidence; one was tried separately for lesser crimes and got two years. Among the surviving defendants, nearly all admitted sharing the responsibility for the brutality of the camp but stopped short of admitting to any murders. Hermine Ryan told the court she now had "deep understanding and regret" for the sufferings of the prisoners. "I only reject the charge of murder," she added. In the end, the testimony was strong enough to exact the maximum penalty only for Ryan...
Granted, the Columbia is a yummy public relations cream puff. But I am not cheering. What good is space wizardry if our home planet becomes unfit for life -animal, vegetable or human...
...papers never grew up. When readership moved to the suburbs and became more respectable, the Hearst papers couldn't follow. The domineering Hearst had made his sons unfit to lead by spoiling them, pulling them out of college, putting them in jobs over their heads, dashing their confidence, and sealing the insult in his will by contriving to strip them of command and money. So the company fell into the hands of a riskless, unimaginative class of managers who kept the family at bay, sold off half the papers from 1956-67, and turned a turbulent enterprise into a bottom...
...There would be no exemptions from the lottery except for crippling illness. Anyone drafted but considered physically unfit for combat training would be assigned to noncombat duties. Conscientious objectors would be conscripted for a form of nonmilitary service...
...Even if a gay is accepted by his family and friends, he still faces devastating social discrimination. He can legally be excluded from any kind of employment, public or private, barred by labor unions, denied housing, mortgage, credit insurance, even public accomodations. In all 50 states he is deemed unfit to teach school. In each case, he is judged as a worker, tenant or customer not by his credentials for such activities, but by how he conducts his private life...