Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION 1-Breach of Faith, White (1) 2 -How the Good Guys Finally
...Adoption" means assuming responsibility for a prisoner until he is released or otherwise disposed of by his government. In its literature, Amnesty repeatedly invokes the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which White terms "a treaty more honored in the breach than anything else." Amnesty groups write letters to ministers and other key figures in the governments of their adopted prisoners. White says that although officials rarely reply the first time. Amnesty keeps pestering them "until the file on a particular prisoner has grown so fat that they cannot afford to ignore it." White mentions that it is more...
...complaints by Greek Americans that he should have warned the Turks that invading Cyprus would be a breach of aid agreements, as Lyndon Johnson did so effectively in 1965, Kissinger has argued that would have been interpreted as support of the Athens junta-a U.S. stance for which he was already under fire. While some of his aides have conceded that Turkey violated U.S. military aid laws, Kissinger insists they are bad laws. With merit, the pro-Greece lobbyists counter that laws, good or bad, must be obeyed. Indeed, when India and Pakistan went to war, using U.S. arms...
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...Breach of Faith, White...