Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West German government feels itself caught between Washington pressure for strong anti-Soviet action and French unwillingness to do much. Publicly, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week told the Bundestag that "we condemn the Soviet intervention" but also that "we must, with steadiness, consider our German and Western interests." Privately, he sighed to aides: "When you are neck-deep in manure, you must still smile." Bonn is increasing aid to Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, nations that might be threatened by the Soviets. Bonn also persuaded Paris at least to join the other community members in reviewing which high-technology items could...
...condemn Mayor Byrne in your article on Chicago's woes [Dec. 31] and bemoan Mayor Daley's absence by stating that if he were there, the city wouldn't have all these problems. The truth is that these problems are exploding because Mayor Daley was there and he gave away the store with lucrative settlements to keep his machine running smoothly...
...retaliatory measures, sharply denounced the Soviet action. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: "We cannot just stand back and see Russia do what they have done in Afghanistan." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an address to the Bundestag, used some of his strongest language so far to condemn the Soviet aggression. He warned that it not only "directly affects the interests of the Third World and adjoining countries" but also "has an unavoidable effect on Europe and us in Germany." In Melbourne, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser asserted that the Soviet action "poses dangers to world peace greater than...
With that, the drive to condemn Moscow shifted to an emergency session of the General Assembly, where vetoes do not apply and where Third World countries hold a strong majority. The Soviets let Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost carry their case at the debate's opening. He protested that the U.N. was reviving the "dark days of the cold war." Other delegates remained unpersuaded. Charged Colombia's delegate Indalecio Lievano: The Soviets' arrogant abuse of power represents "a return to the law of the jungle in the era of nuclear weapons...
...guerrillas, some of whom marched more than a hundred miles over difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request to extend the assembly deadline, indicated that he would take no immediate action against late-arriving guerrillas. Indeed, he could hardly condemn only the Front's few stragglers, since it was the Rhodesian security forces who seemed to be dragging their feet in returning to their bases, and some units continued to carry out unauthorized military missions in defiance of the truce...