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HERSH shows clearly how the self-serving attitudes of the Peers commission members mirrored those of the officers and men of the Americal. Peers would not allow Vietnam war opponents to testify, and one of the commission members--who went out of his way to self-righteously upbraid the officers of the Americal--is now himself accused of "failure to comply with written directions in connection with the murder in 1969...of at least five Vietnamese prisoners and electric torture of a sixth...
...statement implies that he has had some recent trouble behind the scenes in running the University. Students, faculty, and administrators generally upbraid him the most for his lack of personal contact with them and his handling of the April 9, 1969 University Hall occupation. Private pressures built to the point where Pusey felt his generation's time...
...will among millions of Chinese who had been impressed by the Communists' display of strength, incorruptibility and iron discipline. More than by physical labor, the Chinese have been worn out by mass brainwashing sessions, public-accusation meetings, collective confessions, and endless "struggle" conferences in which relays of Reds upbraid backsliders. As a result, harried citizens develop what one expert calls "double selves, an outer, superficial self that conforms to Communist demands, and an inner, moral self that remains hidden...
...Senate is not only one of the world's most exclusive clubs but a club whose members are expected to step out-side for epithetical exchanges. Despite such restrictions, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart rose one evening last week and in mounting anger began to upbraid one of the handful of Senators present, Oregon's Democrat Wayne Morse. With some 20 gawkers lolling in the galleries, Capehart cited a reported statement by Morse that Dwight Eisenhower and skidded Teamsters Union Boss Dave Beck are "the same kind of immoralists"-Beck for pickpocketing his union members...
Baptism Postponed. Another difficulty is the fact that Islam is not only a religious faith but a communal allegiance and a social order. The Moslem's relation to God is inextricably linked with his relation to society. As a consequence, Moslems frequently upbraid Christianity for not disciplining and controlling Western civilization. Christians must impress on Islam, says Cragg, that "the Christian understanding of how man is put to rights is that it happens personally and through faith. . . . Thus the unit of Christianity [is] not society but persons in society . . . The Gospel of grace does not suppose that...