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From her experiences at SANEFreeze, Allen says she recognized the impact that actively working to combat homophobia could have. It was also from her experiences at the peace organization that Allen developed her commitment to transforming ideology into action, a quality that is one of the first things people mention about...
...tests, said Weinberger in 1984, were: "The United States should not commit forces to combat overseas unless the particular engagement or occasion is deemed vital to our national interest;" an engagement should only be undertaken "with the clear intention of winning" and carried out with "clearly defined political and military objectives;" an involvement "must be continually reassessed and adjusted if necessary" and "have the support of the American people and...Congress;" and engagement should be "a last resort...
However, after he refused to fol low an order to signify that the frail ship was ready for combat, the Navy threatened to court-martial him. Hagerty says, though, that the Navy decided instead to discharge him "when faced with the proposal of an Ivy League officer rotting in their jail...
...finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell," says longtime friend Donna Cady. "He would cry on the phone." She adds, "I know that when he put that mask on his face he had his finger sticking up in the air to say screw you all for the laws that made...
When the oratory had died and the smoke from courtly combat had cleared, enough of the lions could see the national interest and unite with each other and the White House to carry the country with them. Little Rock, desegregation, the Suez crisis, the U-2 incident, the Soviet space challenge. To hell with party vanities -- they stood for themselves...