Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wars he will support? If he does, can the U.S. Government-or any government-survive? The draft evaders and deserters claim that they are serving a higher law than the Selective Service Law-the law of morality. They might quote St. Thomas Aquinas. "Human law," he wrote, "does not bind a man in conscience, and if it conflicts with the higher law, human law should not be obeyed." That is a maxim followed by all who have broken the law as a matter of conscience, from Thoreau and Gandhi to Martin Luther King and the brothers Berrigan. The principle that...
...carrying two dismantled MIGs or two SAM batteries, reportedly touched down last week. The airlift was said to have displeased the Egyptians, who are disturbed over India's role in the war. For its part, Washington stressed that its SEATO and CENTO treaties with Pakistan in no way bind it to come...
...candidates, McCloskey is in the tightest financial bind. His sole big-time benefactor is California Industrialist Norton Simon, who so far has given $40,000. Otherwise, McCloskey has had to appeal to the small giver. "Pete McCloskey," read an ad in last week's New York Times, "would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an oldfashioned, democratic idea...
...marry the daughter of a man who was imprisoned because of his father's perjury? Miller solves this impasse with a heavy does of melodrama which mars the final act. The play ends with a violent solution, but even then we leave the characters in a seemingly impossible bind that is the result of the father's hedging his ideals to suit his business career...
...problem becomes even more complex, because fundamentally the explanations and motivations conflict. You may favor economic aid as a humanitarian gesture and overlook the provisos which bind the people of the recipient nation to a life of misery. You may press for tariff reductions as a "progressive" move and not realize that only industrialized nations with high-cost manufactured goods progress in a tariff-free market economy. You may deplore the life style of South American peasants and forget the cheap price of bananas and the high dividends on your copper stock. But when you wake up, and see that...