Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nomination of a new director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency has prompted a major Senate debate over whether the Administration is seriously committed to arms control. The controversy misses the real question: To what kind of arms control should the Administration commit itself...
...governed." Speaking to a crowd of about 500,000 gathered for Mass at a military parade ground in the capital, the Pope stressed that the government still had to improve its human rights record. Said John Paul: "When you trample a man, when you violate his rights, when you commit flagrant injustices against him, when you submit him to torture, break in and kidnap him or violate his right to life, you commit a crime and a grave offense against...
...woman stopped into a New Bedford bar to buy some cigarettes. She stayed longer than she'd expected Police say that as the 21-year-old woman headed for the door to leave, she was assaulted by four men, who stripped her from the waist down, forced her to commit oral sex, and raped her repeatedly. After more than two hours the woman managed to break free and ran out of the bar for help...
...legal procedure as being the equivalent of the substance of democratic government. There is something myopic in the proposition that a "democracy" is no more than a government which follows acts of genocide with rituals of retribution. Somehow, one would hope and expect of a democracy that it not commit such atrocities as those committed in Lebanon to begin with. This hints at the inconsistency between Israel's simultaneous claim to status within the community of democratic nations and the determination of its leaders to crush, with violence if necessary, any institutional expressions of Palestinian nationalism. For invasions of Lebanon...
Wyse expressed doubts about the financial feasibility of establishing a liaison "Unfortunately, the Faculty is reticent to commit any more theory to the ART then they already have," he said...