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...Marine muttered, "We sure are shooting the living hell out of them." Outside, a Marine tank grinding through the rubble took a B40 rocket in the turret and pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others; the new men did not even bother to wipe the blood from the inside of the tank. The house Greenway took shelter in is empty now, and a woman nearby shrieks at a visitor: "All dead, all dead! Go away...
...often anathema to his conservative Oklahoman constituents. As a member of the Kerner Commission, which investigated black-ghetto rioting in 1967, Harris, son of a Mississippi-born sharecropper, was the principal advocate of the commission's strongly worded condemnation of white racism and its demands for programs to wipe out Negro slums. "If I can come to see these things," Harris is fond of saying, "anyone...
...burdens on the U.S. mind and spirit. Above all, it seeks to penetrate the biggest mystery in U.S. life today: why has the can-do country become a country that can't? Why can't a nation that commands one-third of the world's wealth wipe out its social problems overnight? Are Americans so angry that they simply fail to see and seize the remarkable opportunities before them...
...hope is conditional and still remote. The triumph of Apollo 8 cannot erase the irony that it is easier for man to go to the moon than to wipe out a ghetto, easier for him to travel through space than to clean up his own polluted atmosphere, easier for him to establish cooperation in a vast technological enterprise than to establish brotherhood on a city block. Yet as man has conquered the seas, the air and other natural obstacles, he has also at each stage, in a small way, conquered part of himself. Therein lies the hope and the ultimate...
...Wipe Out. During its first 100 years or so, the U.S. economy was supported by European capital. Europeans bankrolled Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase ($11 million), and European financiers were principal backers of the railroads and the steel, petroleum, mining, cotton and Southwestern cattle industries. The European stake in the U.S. peaked at $7 billion in 1914, but it took two world wars to all but wipe it out. German plants in the U.S. were confiscated in both world wars. Other Europeans sold off their U.S. holdings to raise cash for their war efforts...