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University spokesmen did, like State Department spokesmen, "condemn and abhor" the racial incident, but Bok, the supposed leader of the University, remained mute. Perhaps the strange confluence of the death threat with the Yale Game influenced his low-key posture. But it should not surprise Bok or any other administrator that minority students grew, and are growing, increasingly disenchanted with the president's failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local...
...there is a civilizing theme that runs through the ranks of the people who lead world commerce. They abhor war, they have a rising sense of their obligation to help less developed societies and, in most cases, they see that self-restraint and cooperation are essential to provide the necessary stability to make it all work...
Aquino himself admits he has been asked "not to rock the boat." If one calls the State Department to ask for comment on the most recent bombings, one gets the standard entree: "We abhor and condemn the use of violence for political purposes." If one asks the next logical question, namely, does martial law itself not in fact represent the "use of violence for political purposes" or at least repression, you will get the even more prevalent response: "No comment...
...Frazier Meade, country director for Philippine Affairs at the State Department, says he doesn't "want to get involved in the competition between Marcos and Aquino," adding, "We abhor and deplore any tendencies toward violence...
Danny-Joe Driscoll San Francisco As an Estonian whose parents fled So viet persecution during World War II, I abhor the Soviet government's repression of human rights. Still, its people are hu man beings and deserve to be respected as such, if not by their leaders, then by us. It's high time for Americans to take the trouble to look with interest at life in the U.S.S.R...