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...scale war against us." She announced that the Pakistan air force had struck eight Indian airfields, and that ground forces were shelling Indian defense positions in several sectors along the western border. "I have no doubt that it is the united will of our people," she said, "that this wanton and unprovoked aggression of Pakistan should be decisively and finally repelled...
...State William P. Rogers and presented to visiting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, says that the Administration policy "places the United States on the side of a government which is deliberately flouting the results of a national election, denying East Bengal the most elementary rights of self-determination, and committing wanton massacres against an unarmed people...
Before that is possible, however, a political solution must be found that would end the Pakistani army's reign of terror, wanton destruction and pogroms aimed particularly at the 10 million members of the Hindu minority in predominantly Moslem East Pakistan (pop. 78 million at the start of the civil...
Wicker praised Jackson as "a talented writer, a sensitive man, a potential leader and political thinker of great persuasiveness." He lamented the "wanton destruction of humanity" by a system that had jailed Jackson for one year to life for a $70 robbery at age 19 and kept him in prison for nearly twelve years until his death. "For once," wrote Wicker, "this predominantly white society ought not passively to accept the usual assumption that authority is blameless and truthful, and those who defy it are fools or depraved, especially if black...
...stuck to his guns on "how senselessly and brutally society reacted at every turn to Jackson's early transgressions; moreover, it is still doing so, every day, in other cases, and turning thousands of young offenders into hardened criminals. If that is not 'wanton destruction of humanity,' what...