Word: callous
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...million contribution to NATO earmarked for the construction of new missile sites, causing considerable embarrassment for Conservative Prime Minister Poul Schlüter. During an acrimonious debate over nuclear policy in Britain's House of Commons, leaders of the Labor opposition charged Prime Minister Thatcher with "stony and callous indifference...
Nowhere was the outrage louder than in London. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "this slaughter of innocent people is the product of evil and depraved minds an act of callous and brutal men." Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Prior, who visited the scene, called it "a massacre without mercy ... [one of] the most cold-blooded acts of savagery [ever] carried out in Northern Ireland." Though the I.N.L.A. apparently receives little aid from North America, a conservative M.P. seized the occasion to denounce the "collection of funds for the I.R.A...
...Administration were simply trying to tighten the belt on foreign aid, its backroom maneuvering toward that end would not seem so callous. But that is clearly not the case; President Reagan just recently requested more guns and assistance for several Latin American countries. The White House simply wants to pressure Israel to get but of Lebanon and change its policies in the occupied territories. Ultimately, Washington hopes to weaken support for Begin and usher the Labor opposition into power...
EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, the Reagan Administration lets its guard down long enough to reveal its true political colors and the sight is rarely pretty. Last week's disclosure that the White House was considering a study proposal to tax unemployment benefits revealed not only dubious economic thinking but callous political style as well...
...clubby spirit of the 40s or 50s has changed to what many perceive as jet-set elitism. Although they have always solicited work from any member of the Harvard community. Advocate editors have sometimes seemed like what editor Chris Caldwell '83 calls a "collection of cocaine snorting, cavalier, callous glitterati." As an arts magazine, the Advocate has appelned to the avant garde in some people, and thus scared others away...