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...degree to which some have gone in attacking Question 5 is fascinating. There are those who object because there is no explicit security guarantee for Israel. There is none for Palestine either. There are those who object because the referendum does not condemn PLO atrocities. But the U.S. already condemns various actions of Palestinians; the referendum does not challenge this policy. It only seeks to hold Israel to the same human rights standards applied to South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Central America. The most frustrating excuse that opposition to Question 5 has invented is that the situation...
...important issues such as finals clubs, the council has refused to take a strong stance on either side. Its schizophrenia is apparent--while it has refused to condemn the clubs or ask that they admit women, the council has twice voted to give funds to Lisa Schkolnick '88 for her lawsuit against the Fly Club. This inability to follow a consistent policy shows, more than anything else, a general, debilitating moral lethargy...
Burmese authorities claimed that 144 people were killed during the first three days, but the true death total probably surpassed 500. Horrified at the carnage, U.S. Ambassador Burton Levin called upon the Saw Maung regime to condemn the killing of protesters by its soldiers. The ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany remonstrated "in the strongest terms" with the Burmese government for its "defiance of respect for human rights...
...course, hindsight is always 20-20, and it's easy for talk show commentators and editorial writers to condemn Rowan when they have never been the target of death threats the way he has. Yet if the handgun had not been so readily available, what would Rowan have done? Probably called the police, which is what hindsight (and these very commentators) say he should have done in the first place...
...mistake to focus on these questions. Dismissing Kennedy's idealism as a vote-getting ploy has given people false confidence in dismissing his message. And so we choose an easy out--taking refuge in our own sophisticated pessimism. But if we follow this path, we condemn ourselves to a world without ideals...