Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal suggested that the commission examine "aspects of military-civilian governmental operations" to determine whether there have been violations of acceptable standards of wartime behavior...
Grinspoon also attacks popular conceptions about the effect of grass on its users. Research. he agrees, has not yet produced any proof that smoking pot leads to violent behavior, sexual debauchery, or even to harder drugs. and there have been studies that give evidence to the contrary...
...important to remember that the U.S. in Viet Nam faces an unusually brutal enemy who uses terror deliberately (see box, page 29). But that certainly is no excuse for American behavior at My Lai. It is also small comfort to the U.S. that other Western nations have been guilty of wartime atrocities. The French executed some 15,000 Moslems in the long Algerian war of the 1950s. At Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle...
...give their primary allegiance to humanity rather than the State. Although the Nazi defendants pleaded "state orders," 19 were convicted and ten were hanged. To skeptics, Nurnberg proved mainly that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Nevertheless, the supremacy of civilized rules of behavior was enunciated in a U.N. report: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or a superior does not relieve him of responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible...
Imagine a room full of women trying their hardest to act the way your older sister, mother, or grandmother would act on their best behavior. After I filled out an application, a Harvard faculty wife took my temperature with the slowest thermometer in the world. Every five minutes she checked to see if my temperature had climbed up to 98,6. With an embarrassed smile. she kept putting the thermometer back in my mouth until I finally reached 97,8. The man sitting next to me had been told to "warm up" for 15 minutes when he could not push...