Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Israeli reaction was worldwide. France became the first government to condemn Israel for its role in the massacre. In Italy, dock workers refused to load Israeli vessels, and airport workers announced a boycott of all flights between Israel and Italy, forcing passengers to clamber down from the planes and carry their own baggage to the terminal. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said that when Israel allowed the Christian militia to go into the camps, "you would expect horrifying results. So at best it was incompetent. But I suspect it was worse than that...
...worth remembering that we're only talking about 80 or so schools with big-time football or basketball programs, not the approximately 1500 four-year public and private schools in the nation. To some extent, the problems linked to college sports only reflect society's perverse values. Why condemn the coach when he's merely trying to do what all the alums, students and other fans want, no less expect--to win? So come caution is in order in prescribing solutions. So is some skepticism: just try to get 80 fractious, selfish schools to agree on some sort of course...
...Begin said that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar would not be welcome to visit Jerusalem if he went through with a plan to meet with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Still later in the week, when the Security Council debated a resolution to condemn Israel for defying previous U.N. demands on Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such as Warsaw...
...would enforce the amendment. To legal experts it is conceivable that the whole federal budget, item by item, might end up for review by the Supreme Court. Says Yale Law Professor Burke Marshall: "This would be the breeding ground for an enormous amount of litigation." Conservatives who condemn the activism of American judges should wonder whether they really want to watch the courts of the land running the appropriations process...
...Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve the Iranian conditions...