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...clearly, Genocide, "an odious scourge," is a crime committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group..." This convention was the direct response to Nazi mass murder. At the time, the 1946 resolution against genocide and the convention were viewed as vital components of an international prevention of this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember, as it found it difficult to grasp." The resolution and convention were supposed...
Labor unions are as vital to workers today as ever before because "industrial safety and health remains a national outrage," Lloyd McBride, President of the United Steelworkers of America, told a crowd of more than 200 at the Forum last night...
Though quasi-journalistic sidelines account for 15% of U.P.I. revenues, most of the proceeds from the sale of stock will go toward improving news coverage, and competition with A.P. should heighten. "We feel strongly that the country needs two vital news services," says Beaton. Alas, U.P.I. last week was unable to upstage its rival on one major story, though it definitely had the edge on inside information. Because of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that prohibits a company from advertising a stock offering, U.P.I. could not report news of its forthcoming partnership sale...
...struggle for a strong and vital Afro-American Studies Department is one of the most important issues we face this year and will not be won unless we are united in the effort. Mark Lipman
...concern. Equally important was the elliptical assurance, later repeated by Chou, that removed the nightmare of two Administrations?that China might intervene in Indochina militarily. In foreclosing Chinese military intervention abroad and in the comments on Japan and South Korea, Mao was telling us that Peking would not challenge vital American interests...