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...heard of the Catholic guerrillas. Said he: "I don't believe they should do things that way because violence begets violence." The cardinal and other church leaders also fear that a witch hunt by the government could divide the church. Army commanders, in fact, have threatened to root out "the subversive thrust of religious radicals." So far, the regime has refrained from making any arrests, perhaps out of concern that just as violence can beget more violence, so repression can breed radicalism...
...have mixed emotions about a game like this," Dick Sr. said after the game. "You have to root for your son, but I still get a funny feeling. I would listen to the Harvard band play and get goose pimples all over...
...Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed off before he had a chance to eat, then ordered his driver to stop at a McDonald's, where he picked up a hamburger and a root beer. He arrived at the White House clutching the paper bag and wolfed down the fast-food fare in his elegant corner office before heading for the Cabinet Room...
...conquering the whole of Indochina. The military responses we made were much agonized over and in our view minimal if we were to conduct a retreat that did not become a rout. Hanoi's insatiable quest for hegemony-not America's hesitant and ambivalent response-is the root cause of Cambodia's ordeal. The persistence of the image of American officials plotting the overthrow of neutralist Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia and plunging deeper into war in Laos as well as Cambodia illustrates the prevalence of emotion over reality. By the middle of April, before we had undertaken...
...tests, both verbal and nonverbal, are not expressions of "white culture" that penalize blacks. Surprisingly, blacks do better on "culture-loaded" tests than on "culture-fair" tests that are carefully constructed to root out references more familiar to middle-class whites than to blacks...