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It was a sight all too familiar to turbulent Iraq, which generally averages at least two revolts a year. Automatic rifles cracked through the streets. Seven Iraqi air force MIG-19s whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station...
It remained for a seemingly minor incident in Jerusalem to illuminate the quality about Eichmann that Historian Hannah Arendt has characterized "the banality of evil." One day after a court session, Eichmann was shown a film: here were Jewish victims packed like cattle into trains; here were Nazi execution squads...
The announcement and execution of the bombing came practically simultaneously with qualified assurance from the Administration that the United States was winning the military war. Immediately after the bombing, additional assurance came from Pentagon experts that China would not enter the war as a result of the air attack.
And to Saudi ways, as well. Feisal puts in a 20-hour day, personally studies every new government project, and deals harshly with loafers. For several days a few weeks ago, Information Minister Jamil Hujaylan stood pointedly at the door of his ministry building, clocking employees in and out. Even...
Intraparty Clawing. Some hopefuls figure that opposition to the war may nonetheless prove the open-sesame to office-despite powerful evidence to the contrary in Oregon last month, where Democrat Robert Duncan won a hand some victory in the senatorial primary by strongly supporting the Administration on Viet Nam. Most...