Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stated: "It clearly takes greater savagery to kill a defenseless human being when one looks into his face than when one never sees him" [Dec. 5]. I seem to remember that Eichmann and other administrators of the "final solution" had little taste for witnessing the outcome of their executive orders. If only because the authority for acts of state ultimately resides in the broad consent of the people, we must apply to ourselves the same rule that we have with such grave innocence applied to criminals of war in the past. If animals did what we accuse these...
...members of Recruit Platoon 1055 at San Diego. When one of them stumbled into the formation of another unit and got the traditional pummeling, the others rescued him. They spent another six weeks in infantry training at California's Camp Pendleton, then came home together for a final round of parties and dates. Beneath their careless courage, six of the nine harbored a premonition, a vision of a future that they could only accept calmly...
Despite his cool relationship with Congress, Richard Nixon offset his switchboard's tactlessness by going to the Hill for lunch on the final day. He gave the key leaders cuff links bearing the Presidential seal plus pearl-ringed brooches for their wives. He offered general thanks, said nothing of his disappointments; his warm mood conveyed the impression that he did not intend to veto any major bills. It was the kind of rapport-building gesture that politicians of both parties had wanted him to make months earlier, though it is questionable whether gestures would have helped improve the final...
...Vice President will then make stops in Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore, finally coming to rest for a few days at a plush beach hotel in Bali. Revived by dips in the Indian Ocean, a set or two of tennis and perhaps a few rounds of golf-Agnew packed his clubs, rackets and bathing trunks-the Vice President will fly the final leg of his journey, stopping in Australia and New Zealand and returning to Washington in mid-January...
...Hilton. The divisive agenda item was an Egyptian proposal that the other twelve members of the conference assist Egypt and Jordan by playing a greater part in the war against Israel. "I want to know whether you want to participate in the battle or not," Nasser demanded at the final working session. "I ask you please to tell me whether you want to fight." Earlier Egypt's Defense Minister, General Mohammed Fawzi, had unveiled a "mobilization plan" proposing that...