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...ditch. Calley started interrogating the monk, "then he hit him with the butt of his rifle in the mouth ... He [the monk] was sort of like pleading. He was about 40 to 50 years old. Lieut. Calley put his rifle at point blank and pulled the trigger in his face. His head was just blown away." Soon afterward, Sledge heard someone hollering that "there was a child running toward the village. Lieut. Calley grabbed it by the arm, threw it into the ditch and fired." Sledge was not sure whether the child was a boy or a girl, "but maybe...
Tragedy of Errors. The bill's most mischievous feature is the so-called "trigger mechanism." It forces the President to impose quotas or higher tariffs on any foreign product that is increasing rapidly in sales and has captured 15% of the U.S. marketprovided that the domestic industry can prove injury and the U.S. Tariff Commission recommends action. The President can avoid invoking restrictions only if he finds that they would not be "in the national interest." At present, an estimated 125 foreign productsincluding wigs, radioactive isotopes, sewing machines, autos and TV setswould...
...less competition from abroad. The costs. Brimmer declares, will be borne disproportionately by the poor, who must spend a larger slice of their income on shoes and clothing than the well-to-do. These costs would be multiplied if imports of many other foreign products were limited under the trigger mechanism...
...still wage a vigorous fight against the Mills bill in the Senate. If it passes, he would do well to veto it, even at the price of delaying an increase in Social Security benefits. If the bill becomes law, he could use the "national interest" clause to weaken the trigger mechanism. The President's waffling so far, however, leaves scant hope that he will do any of these things. If he does not. the black comedy could become a horror story...
...apotheosis, he ends up with "dirty hands." He stamps out the hydra of revisionism, in the person of Hoederer, but he can only shoot Hoederer after a conflation of damning circumstances have, so to speak, unhinged him. But is he really unhinged since he doesn't actually pull the trigger until jealousy, a bourgeois passion, has set off some passional reflex deep down in his basically bourgeois soul? He sees Hoederer, the ideological enemy, kiss his wife. He shoots Hoederer. Has he acted? Has he validated anything...