Word: affront
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...Your Essay accurately states the absurd, puritanical and self-defeating nature of most divorce statutes. But forced reconciliation negotiations before a civil servant are as much an affront to adults as present divorce laws. Respect for the dignity of the individual and for his right to terminate an intimate relationship is more important than the benefits of mass counseling...
...free men of any generation your cover story on Spain [Jan. 21], was an affront not worthy of TIME'S reasonably impartial standards. The tortured many who fought fascism in 1937 would turn in their unmarked graves to see Franco against a background of a green tree...
...Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments-which sets guidelines for the "voluntary" program limiting direct U.S. investment abroad -declared that Iran was now a "developed nation." Far from feeling complimented, the Shah and Amir Abass Hoveida, his Prime Minister and chief economic planner, took the declaration as an affront; it made Iran for the first time subject to the guidelines...
...regulation. Katzenbach's ruling was cheered by veterans' organizations and hissed by word warriors of the left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson's widow Sylvia offered the ultimate non sequitur: "Are they now saying that Arlington is only for political...
...that it has banned Le Nickel products from the U.S. because the company made a deal in July to buy 33 million Ibs. of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. The ban is based on the U.S. law prohibiting imports of products made from Cuban materials. Compounding the affront to the U.S. is the fact that Le Nickel agreed to purchase its nickel oxide from Cuba's Nicaro plant, a rich source that had been owned by the U.S. Government and operated by National Lead Co. until Castro expropriated...