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...nonuniformed forces in dispute were civilians, mainly old men, women and youths engaged in such home-guard activities as digging fortifications, laying mines and planting poisoned punji sticks as booby traps near their villages. They were not, he said, "fighters who could damage us, who we had to destroy." Westmoreland maintained that listing these irregulars as enemy troops could have sapped the spirit of U.S. soldiers. Said he: "It would be terribly detrimental to the morale of my troops to find out the enemy has increased...
...dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people's lives. Christ would never have come out on the side of the corporations...
...under it--was roundly criticized for its irreverence. The phrase, roughly translated, means "she has a hot ass." The Dadas also sponsored "readings" which consisted of random gunshots or the din of a sledgehammer pounding on sheetmetal. The aim of this group, beyond sheer insanity, was to destroy the foundations of what makes art, and thereby to undermine one aspect of a society they saw as inherently evil. Their irreverence and vulgarity sprang from the same ethos that the punks' did--a conviction that anything at all is better than what we have...
...dramatic cases are not the only relevant ones. If a bank loses it database of accounts and names it will fail. If a company loses accurate track of its inventory and accounts receivable data is goes out of business. Terrorists can do severe damage to the nation by destroying several vital computers simultaneously. The Italian Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, still isn't sure who holds a drivers license as legal identification in Italy because its central database files were blown up anti government bombers in the late 1970s. A company near San Francisco lost $100,000 last year...
...What gave Leonard Bailey hope of better results was the advent of the wonder-drug cyclosporine. Developed by Sandoz Ltd. in Switzerland, cyclosporine inhibits organ rejection by partly suppressing the immune system. It is considered safer than earlier drugs used for this purpose because it is less likely to destroy the body's ability to fight infection. Since its first use in the U.S. in 1979 it has revolutionized transplant surgery, raising the one-year survival rate of heart recipients from 65% in the 1970s to 80%. Bailey believed that by focusing on the treatment of newborns, whose immune systems...