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...FAILING TO PUBLICIZE these horrors our news media play right into the hands of the Soviet government. The men in the Kremlin have every interest in keeping their gross violations of international law hidden behind a veil of public complacency. It should be kept in mind that the international news media failed to publicize reports of Nazi genocide despite overwhelming evidence as early as 1942. Only after the defeat of the Third Reich did the world's collective conscience gather over the dead and ask, "Why wasn't this prevented...
...find the responses of the freshmen of the Undergraduate Council poll most instructive. To determine the fair terms of cooperation in a society of citizens regarded as free and equal, philosopher John Rawls uses the idea of an "original position." People in the "original position" are hidden behind a "veil of ignorance": though familiar with how society operates, they do not know their particular situation within it. In the society of Harvard undergraduate housing, the freshman class best approximates this state. If they were to assemble together to formulate a system of assigning Houses, any unanimous agreement resulting from their...
Nevertheless, the veil of secrecy was quickly and predictably pierced. Two days after the Pentagon's strictures against speculation, the Washington Post reported that Mission 51-C will launch a military-intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signal intelligence"), which can intercept electronic signals. With the information now in the public domain, A.P. promptly ran with its similar story and NBC aired a watered-down version...
...recommending love in South Africa, a considerable irony, since exactly 36 blacks are counted among B.Y.U.'s 26,000 students, and seven are members of the football team. They are outnumbered by Polynesians. "Our recruiting is not predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably the most married college...
...bombs have faded into a black drizzle of radioactive fallout. Yet Armageddon is not complete: for miles above the earth, sunlight is blotted out by plumes of smoke from the vast conflagrations in which the major cities of the Northern Hemisphere have been consumed. This thick veil of soot and dust slowly circulates through various layers of the atmosphere, blanketing entire continents, creating a world of frigid darkness. As ground temperatures plummet by as much as 40° F and the sun is obscured, crops in Iowa, Nebraska and the Ukraine in the Soviet Union perish...