Word: assents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express racial prejudice and bigotry, we cannot be silent, for in this climate, silence can often suggest assent...
...Nowell "is a bit mad." He explains, "Her sense of other people's not good. They can be sweet to her, and they can be foul to her, and that's about as much scope as they've got." The doctor puts another question: "Would you say, would you assent to the proposition that all women are mad?" Stanley replies, "Yes. No, not all. There are exceptions, naturally...
...propositions about Viet Nam that commands near unanimous assent from Americans is the obvious one that the U.S. lost-- and a growing number would qualify even that. Richard Nixon, in his new book, No More Vietnams, argues that "we won the war" but then abandoned South Viet Nam after the Communist North began violating the 1973 Paris accords that supposedly ended the fighting. Though the former President's self-interest is , obvious, parts of his analysis are supported even by the enemy. U.S. Army Colonel Harry Summers Jr., who considers Viet Nam "a tactical success and a strategic failure...
...realization that it is not strong enough militarily to force Iran to discuss peace. Khomeini, enraged that Saddam started the war, has vowed that he will accept nothing less than the overthrow of Iraq's President and its ruling Baath Party--and Saddam is not about to assent to his own downfall. In an effort to persuade Iran to negotiate by choking off its oil revenues, the Iraqis began attacking tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf last March. Since the start of the "tanker war," 44 oil carriers have been hit. The campaign has failed to cripple Iran, though reports...
...conservative interpretation of Vatican II. He wrote: "The Church of Christ exists in the Catholic Church and the fullness of grace and of truth are the patrimony of the Catholic Church so that only she possesses the complete means for salvation." Reunion cannot occur, he maintained, without other churches' "assent to all and every one of the dogmas" professed by Rome. Vatican II did not explicitly make such a demand, which would exclude not only Protestants but also the Eastern Orthodox, reunion with whom has long been considered a prime personal interest of John Paul's. If nothing else...