Word: complicitous
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When the war stopped, so did this vast torrent of images to the West. Both sides seemed complicit in the blackout: the Vietnamese victors were not especially eager for skeptical foreigners to photograph their land, and the foreigners were not all that interested anyway--since when has peace been newsworthy? Out of sight was not quite out of mind, but close. Now, however, thanks to an anniversary marking the end of a wrenching war, the pictures have begun to flow again, giving Americans another look at a country they knew so well--and knew hardly...
...However one views the Sandinista record, we are not responsible for it. But we are complicit with what the 'contras' are doing," Steiner adds. "Let's get our human rights priorities straight...
...Students were disturbed that Harvard as an institution did not distance itself from the war," says Professor of History Charles S. Maier '60, then an instructor. Because Harvard did not distance itself from Vietnam--by terminating contracts with the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC), for example--"it was somehow complicit," Maier adds...
...reasons of identification as well. Few men would associate themselves with those who actually "did it to her." But quite more than a few know what it is to be caught in the middle of an all-male show of power and coercion, and thus to be complicit, even at the fringes, in something their consciences abhor...
Harvard owes us a voice in the way our money is used. Until the Corporation listens to student protest and divests from its holdings in South Africa there is no reason for us to become personally complicit by contributing to apartheid. As long as the President and Fellows ignore us, we will owe them nothing...