Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam, perhaps intended as an overture to its former enemy. Actually, there are two policies, says William Cassidy, former Customs service consultant: "One is the policy they tell the American people . . . the embargo. The second . . . pursued in secret, ((is)) the lack of enforcement." While Customs has turned a blind eye, Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. have shipped up to $200 million a year in currency and goods to their homeland. "People assumed that it was O.K.," says Mai Cong, president of the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County. Now the signal from Customs seems to be that toleration...
...cannot be selective in our condemnation of oppression. Having campaigned against racism in our country, apartheid in South Africa, the iron fist of Pinochet, the atrocities of the Khomeni regime and against funding of Contra terror and death squads in Central America, we cannot turn a blind eye to the oppression visited upon the Palestinian people as they try to end Israeli occupation. One and a half million have been protesting day after day for almost a year, sacrificing their lives by the hundreds and enduring beatings and torture by the thousands. They ask only for the same right...
...thuggish," Amenta said. "It was an exercise of blind, naked authority, so far from any modern method of management as to be absurd...
...should not be an issue that sways votes, and it is unfortunate that the small doctor population in this country will be blind to the merits of the Democratic ticket this year. But if doctors are Dukakis' enemies, then he has earned them...
...case without knowledge of the assailant. Determining the punishment of the hit-and-run driver must reflect the driver's previous record, especially if he or she had ever been stopped for driving while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. Justice, while it should be blind, should not be served blindly...