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The Cage [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]

Unaired pilot


VINA: They say in the olden days all this was a desert. Blowing sand and cactus.

PIKE: But we're not here, neither of us. We're in a menagerie, a cage!

VINA: No.

PIKE; I can't help either one of us if you won't give me a chance. Now, you told me once they used illusions as a narcotic. They couldn't repair the machines left by their ancestors. Is that why they want us, to build a colony of slaves?

VINA: Stop it. Don't you care what they'll do to us?

PIKE: Back in my cage, it seemed for a couple of minutes that our keeper couldn't read my thoughts. Do emotions like hate, keeping hate in your mind, does that block off our mind from them?

VINA: Yes. They can't read through primitive emotions. But you can't keep it up for long enough. I've tried. They keep at you and at you year after year, tricking and punishing, and they won. They own me. I know you must hate me for that.

PIKE: Oh, no. I don't hate you. I can guess what it was like.

VINA: But that's not enough. Don't you see? They read my thoughts, my feelings, my dreams of what would be a perfect man. That's why they picked you. I can't help but love you and they expect you to feel the same way.

PIKE: If they can read my mind, then they know I'm attracted to you.

[Talosian monitoring room]

PIKE [on monitor]: I was from the very first moment I saw you in the survivor's camp.

TALOSIAN: A curious species. They have fantasies they hide even from themselves.

VINA [on monitor]: I'm beginning to see why none of this has worked for you. You've been home, and fighting as on Rigel. That's not new to you, either. A person's strongest dreams are about what he can't do. Yes, a ship's captain, always having to be so formal, so decent and honest and proper. You must wonder what it would be like to forget all that.

[Open air party]

(A band plays, and a green woman dances sensuously)

OFFICER: Nice place you have here, Mister Pike.

(The dancer is -)

PIKE: Vina?

ORION: Glistening green. Almost like secret dreams a bored ship captain might have.

OFFICER: Funny how they are on this planet. They actually like being taken advantage of. Suppose you had all of space to choose from, and this was only one small sample.

ORION: Wouldn't you say it was worth a man's soul?













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Meet the Fisher family.

After the patriarch of the family, dies in a hearse-accident, the family comes together to mourn and decide the fate of the family Funeral Home. Nate, who works for an organic grocery store in Seattle, has to deal with more than just the death of his father. His mother, Ruth, is taking the death especially hard because she had been having an affair with her hairdresser, Hiram. David, the closeted homosexual who has helped with the business, has a difficult transition running things. Claire, the youngest of the clan, is a teenager in high-school trying to get comfortable in her own skin. On top of everything the family is already going through, they have a corporate funeral company hounding them to sell out.

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Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977

182 - Statement on the Evacuation of the United States Mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

April 12, 1975

IN VIEW of the seriously deteriorating military situation around the Cambodian Capital of Phnom Penh, and on the basis of the recommendations of the American Ambassador to the Khmer Republic, I have instructed the personnel of the U.S. Mission to leave Phnom Penh.

In accordance with those instructions, American personnel have been evacuated. I also authorized that a number of Cambodians whose lives would have been jeopardized if they had remained in Cambodia be evacuated with the American Mission.

I sincerely regret that there was not timely action on my request to the Congress to enable the United States to continue to provide the assistance necessary to the survival of the Government of the Khmer Republic. That Government had asked for this assistance and had clearly proven itself worthy of our help.

The United States wishes Cambodia to find its place in the world as an independent, neutral, and united country, living in peace. Our assistance was sought for that purpose. We also made numerous and vigorous diplomatic efforts, from the first to the last, to find a compromise settlement.

I decided with a heavy heart on the evacuation of American personnel from Cambodia because of my responsibility for the safety of the Americans who have served there so valiantly. Despite that evacuation, we will continue to do whatever possible to support an independent, peaceful, neutral, and unified Cambodia.

We can all take deep pride in the United States Armed Forces that were engaged in this evacuation operation. It was carried out with great skill and in a manner that reflects the highest credit on all of those American servicemen who participated. I am deeply grateful to them for a job well done.










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Harry S. Truman

XXXIII President of the United States: 1945 - 1953

33 - Remarks to Officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

February 18, 1949

IT IS GOOD to see all of you. I wish it were possible for me to attend every veterans meeting to which I am invited. It is impossible, though I am glad it was possible to get you in this afternoon.

I am familiar with your problems, and I am familiar with your organization, having been a member of it since 1919. I have been to a number of your national conventions. I was at one of your encampments when I was Vice President, if you remember. I couldn't get around last year; I had too many other engagements I

I hope that you can continue your constructive program. I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of the country understand that this United States is theirs. They fought to maintain it. It was due to their efforts that we have been able to continue the constitutional government instituted in 1789 by the greatest group of young men who ever got together to organize a government. That was the Constitutional Convention of 1787, implemented in 1789.

In order to maintain that government, we must understand that it has certain limitations. It is your Government. Your Congress and your Governors and your State legislators are all a part of it, and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched. I want you to bear that in mind very carefully when you are considering the welfare of the veteran.

I don't think that in the history of the country any veteran has ever had the opportunity that was presented to those returning from this war, and I am happy to say that a vast majority of them took advantage of those opportunities.

They are now the businessmen and the citizens and the executives in every walk of life. There are around 17 or 18 million veterans in the United States at the present time, and they are the young men of the country. They are connected with at least 40 million of the population of 140 millions. So it is as necessary for you to assist the Government as represented by your President, and Congress and the Governors and the State legislators to maintain that Government, and see that it maintains the solvency that is necessary for its continuance, as it is for me as President to try to maintain it now in this troubled world.

I am counting on you for help and support to carry out those policies which will make the country a better place in which to live and one which will give the rest of the world an example of how a government, of and by and for the people, can function. I know you can do that.

Thank you very much for coming over. I appreciate having you.

Note: The President spoke at 3:25 p.m. in his office at the White House.

The group was in Washington to attend the Annual Conference of National Officers and Department Commanders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.










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Dwight D. Eisenhower

XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961

115 - Statement by the President for the White House Conference on Refugees.

May 21, 1959

[ Read by Gerald D. Morgan, The Deputy Assistant to the President ]

IT IS a pleasure to welcome you to the White House Conference on Refugees. At the same time, I want you to know how gratified I am that so many of you have been able to arrange your busy schedules to participate in this meeting. From it, I am sure, will come a clear concept of our country's role in the World Refugee Year.

To such a group as this it is not necessary to describe the daily problems of the millions of dispossessed people around the world whom we call "refugees". You are well aware of their problems. In fact, you and the organizations which many of you represent deserve the highest praise for what you have done and what you are now doing to help these refugees and to keep alive their hope for a better way of life.

The response of the American people to the needs of the homeless and the outcast has always been generous and timely. Since the early days of Nazism, and even more particularly since the end of World War II, Americans have opened their hearts and land to thousands of such people.

With charity and understanding, the American people have welcomed these refugees to our shores. Here, immigrants have traditionally exchanged their despair for confidence, and their fears for security. Today they are citizens; many of them own their own homes; some of them own their own businesses; their children are in our schools; and they, as families, are making a full contribution to our national life.

Much has been done, but the refugee problem remains--acute and chronic--and it will remain so long as the world suffers from political unrest and aggression. And as long as there are refugees, we cannot ignore them.

That is why the United Nations, with the close and immediate support of the United States, sponsored the World Refugee Year. This is a year to focus the concern and the ingenuity--and the generosity--of the world on the continuing problem of refugees. Perhaps, with such a mobilization of effort--as in the International Geophysical Year--but for the advancement of humanity rather than science, it may even be possible to resolve some particular refugee problem. This would be a great step forward, and we can all hope for such progress. In any event we must further our efforts to create lasting international understanding of and concern for this problem, which I fear will be with us for a long, long time.

Now, I have asked you to come together to share with the government your experience, your judgment and your insight regarding the things which should be done and how best to do them. The task of refugee care is not one for governments alone. It can be done only with broad and devoted citizen support. As leaders in your own communities, as officers of private groups, I know you will want to assume the greatest possible personal responsibility in this humanitarian cause.

Working together, I am confident this can, and will be, a useful and promising meeting.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Abraham Pais

American physicist

Abraham Pais, (born May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, Neth.—died July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Den.), Dutch-born American physicist and science historian who , was a prominent theoretical physicist who in later life wrote widely acclaimed biographies of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Pais earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1941. A Jew, he was forced into hiding after Germany overtook The Netherlands during World War II and was briefly imprisoned in 1945. After the war Pais worked at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, where he was an assistant to Bohr; later he was recruited to work at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., where he met Einstein. Pais’s work involved studying the behaviour of subatomic particles. In 1952 he explained a process he termed “associated production,” by which certain particles are produced rapidly but decay slowly, and in 1955, with colleague Murray Gell-Mann, he published a theoretical paper on the laws of quantum mechanics that led physicists James Cronin and Val Fitch to conduct experiments in 1964 that won them a Nobel Prize. Pais joined the faculty of Rockefeller University, New York City, in 1963; he was appointed professor emeritus at the university in 1988. His biography of Einstein, entitled Subtle Is the Lord and considered by some critics to be the best biography of the scientist ever written, appeared in 1982. His book on Bohr, Niels Bohr’s Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity, was published in 1991. Among Pais’s other works were Einstein Lived Here: Essays for the Layman (1994), A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist’s Life in a Turbulent World (1997), and The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery of Twentieth-Century Physicists (2000).










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Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977

266 - Remarks on Signing 18 Executive Warrants for Clemency.

November 29, 1974

FIRST, let me, before reading the prepared statement, thank the Chairman and all of the members of the Board. It has, I know, been a difficult job and a tough responsibility, but I, for one, am very grateful for what each and every one of you have done.

On September 16, I announced my program of clemency, and I am pleased on this Thanksgiving weekend that I am able to announce my first decisions on recommendations of the Presidential Clemency Board involving 18 individual cases of draft evasion.

I wish to thank each of you here for sharing this ceremonial moment, and I also wish to thank the Clemency Board members for their very hard and effective work.

Signing ceremonies often mark the end of a project, but today these signings represent the beginning of the difficult task of administering clemency. Instead of signing these decisions in a routine way, I wish to use this occasion to underline the commitment of my Administration to an evenhanded policy of clemency.

When I initiated the policy, I detailed the reasons for my decision in this very difficult problem. I consider them as valid today as when I first announced them. We do not resolve difficult issues by ignoring them. There are honest differences that will continue to be discussed, but discussions must not overshadow the need for action and fair and open resolution of the clemency problem.

Of the 18 recommendations the Board has made to me, I have reviewed each one and have personally approved each one. Information on these cases will be made available by the Press Office.

I believe this more detailed information will help to explain the basis for my decision in each instance. Of course, considerable more information was made available to the Board, and to me, on which to base these decisions. But to make public the complete files on each individual would be a negation of his right to privacy.

In each case, however, the law was violated, and each has received punishment. The power of clemency can look to reasons for these actions which the law cannot. Unlike God's law, man's law cannot probe into the heart of human beings. The best way we can do this is to offer clemency and to provide a way for offenders to earn their way back into a rightful place in society.

Last week, I traveled overseas in search for peace. Yet, we cannot effectively seek peace abroad with other nations until we have made peace at home. While America reaches out to those whom we have disagreed with in the past, we must do no less within our own Nation.

Sometimes it seems easier for us to forgive foreign enemies than fellow Americans at home. Let us continue to search for a softening of the national animosity caused by differences over the Vietnam war. We will not forget the sacrifices of those who served and died in Vietnam.

In their honor, America must seek ways to live up to the ideals of freedom and charity that they fought to preserve. These first few decisions do not end the unfinished business of clemency, but the task of formal forgiveness is underway.

I hope it marks the beginning of personal forgiveness in the hearts of all Americans troubled by Vietnam and its aftermath.

I do want to thank you, all of the Board members, not only for the first-class job they have done but the way in which they have approached this very difficult responsibility. I am grateful. I am sure the individuals in the cases that are involved here are grateful. And I think the American people will be grateful for them assuming a difficult responsibility and performing it with very great distinction.

I thank you, Charlie, and each of the Board members on this occasion on behalf of all, including 213 million Americans.

Thank you very much.

Note: The President spoke at 1:21 p.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House.










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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia


History

The Early Years: 1993-1997

Maturity: 1997-2004

Completion: 2004 to date

The UN Security Council’s 1993 decision to create the Tribunal was a bold and innovative response to the conflict and crimes then taking place in the former Yugoslavia. But while the concise Statute provided by the Security Council was clear about the crimes over which the Tribunal had jurisdiction, there was little or no precedent to guide the practical work of the first such international court since the post-Second World War Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. The Tribunal's "pioneers" had to build a unique international criminal justice system practically from scratch.

When the first judges arrived at the Tribunal in November 1993, there were no rules of procedure, no cases and no prosecutor. Professional and qualified staff had to be recruited quickly and their often quite different experiences and methods of work from national systems needed to be merged into a functioning international criminal prosecution system. Both the Tribunal's opponents and its well-wishers were uncertain of its success.

By the time the first prosecutor arrived in August 1994, the judges had drafted the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and the Deputy Prosecutor had set up the structures of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), recruited the first investigators and begun mounting investigations in what was, in some cases, hostile territory.

Investigating war crimes is not typical police work. The crimes that the OTP has to deal with were often massive events covering wide areas. Some took place over the course of many months and were highly organised. They involved regular soldiers, armed police, paramilitaries, politicians, and ordinary civilians. There are also many witnesses of different types, including victims and survivors, experts, internationals and insiders. The Tribunal was created to concentrate on the most serious crimes and the people most responsible for them. Wherever possible, investigations have therefore focused on the leaders who could be regarded as most responsible for the crimes, because even heads of state are not above the law.

The Early Years: 1993-1997

The first investigators faced a major challenge: the investigation of alleged crimes while the conflicts in Croatia (1991-5) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-5) were still ongoing. The UN protection force (UNPROFOR) deployed in both of these states did not control security on the ground and often warring parties refused to permit Tribunal investigators access to reported crime scenes or witnesses.

In this start-up period, the OTP utilised and built upon the work of the UN Commission of Experts, a fact-finding body established by the Security Council, whose earlier work had demonstrated that serious crimes were being committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as Croatia. Information was also available from States and from a number of non-governmental organisations and humanitarian agencies who were operating in the region during the conflict. National and international media were another source of information. Nevertheless, it was vital for investigators to go directly to the victims and survivors to record their first-hand accounts by way of formal statements that would become the basis of evidence in court.

Many of the first available witnesses were victims who had fled from Bosnia and Herzegovina and found themselves refugees in other countries. They had been held in detention camps and had been the subject of "ethnic cleansing". Many had harrowing tales to tell of personal tragedy, suffering and loss. Most countries, however, lacked experience in cooperating with international prosecutors and investigators, and few legal mechanisms were in place. In the early years, the OTP therefore did a lot of work establishing the necessary legal agreements and sending teams of investigators to interview witnesses and to record their statements.

The Prosecutor personally invested much time and energy to build the credibility of the OTP and to obtain the cooperation of states. Many commentators in the international and diplomatic community were sceptical that the ICTY could function effectively or achieve results. In some parts of the former Yugoslavia, there was downright refusal to accept the legitimacy of the Tribunal, and clear obstruction of its work. Although in the establishment of the Tribunal there had been general agreement that there could be no lasting peace without bringing war criminals to justice, the reality of sharing information and coming forward to give evidence proved to be a stumbling block for many individuals and institutions.

It was important for the ICTY to demonstrate that international prosecutions were a reality. The first investigations centered on the reported widespread and horrific attacks on Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the Prijedor area of northwestern Bosnia, and the first case before the ICTY concentrated particularly on the notorious Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje Serb-run detention camps. Duško Tadic, the accused in that case, had been in custody in Germany and was being investigated there for similar crimes. The ICTY Prosecutor asserted the Tribunal's primacy over national courts and insisted on the case being transferred to The Hague.

Although the Tadic case was the first to go to trial, the first person to be indicted before the Tribunal was Dragan Nikolic, a commander in the Sušica detention camp in Bosnia established by Serb forces in June 1992. He was indicted on 4 November 1994. As the cases against Tadic and Nikolic would later prove, both were vicious men in the service of the Bosnian Serb authorities who tortured and murdered Bosnian Muslim civilians, but they were not part of the political or military leadership. Heavy expectations were placed on the Tribunal in these early stages of its existence to indict suspected perpetrators, but the institution was not then able to build up credible evidence to indict the leaders who masterminded the criminal campaigns. As a result, many of the early indictments were issued against relatively low and intermediate level alleged perpetrators whom eyewitness survivors and victims had identified as committing crimes in camps and similar locations. However, this so-called ‘pyramid’ approach, where low-ranking military and other officials are held to account for their actions, would over time enable investigators to build up cases against their superiors and ultimately the main architects of the crimes.

The Nikolic case highlights a major problem that would handicap the Tribunal for many years, but was especially acute in the early years: the Tribunal’s inability to arrest suspects and the deliberate obstacles placed in its path by some parties. Nikolic, indicted in 1994, did not come into the Tribunal’s custody until 2000. With the indictment of the Bosnian Serb military and political leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadžic in 1995, a consistent pattern of obstruction towards the Tribunal was established by Bosnian Serb authorities. They were not alone in their refusal to arrest and transfer suspects or meet their obligations towards the Tribunal. Both Croatia and Serbia obstructed the Tribunal’s work, with the authorities in Belgrade demonstrating the most consistent open hostility towards the ICTY.

The Tribunal’s indictment of Mladic and Karadžic less than two and half years after its establishment demonstrated how far the Tribunal had developed in investigating and building credible charges against military and political leaders.

The conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Croatia, concluded before the end of 1995. The following year, 1996, with peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was a significant year in the Tribunal’s history. The organisation was, for the first time in many cases, able to send investigators to alleged crime scenes. The most significant single development concerned the massive investigation into the events that took place in Srebrenica during and after the fall of the former UN ‘safe haven’ in July 1995.

Despite the denial of Serb and other authorities that any crimes had taken place, Tribunal investigators used the testimony of survivors, satellite photography, archaeologists, anthropologists, dog teams and a variety of other specialised teams and experts to search for evidence of mass executions and mass graves. The OTP’s investigations discovered dozens of mass graves, containing the remains of thousands of civilians, many with their hands tied behind their backs with wire, blindfolded with a rag and a bullet hole in the back of their head. The findings of the Tribunal’s exhumation programme that began in the summer of 1996 formed a critical component in the prosecution’s case against persons who were later tried and found guilty for their role in the genocide committed by Serb forces there. More than a decade later, national authorities are continuing the exhumation work with harrowing findings










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