Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORLD community must condemn the South African government for rejecting the United Nations plan for an internationally supervised transition to independence in Namibia, the miner-rich territory South Africa has illegally occupied in defiance of U.N. ruling since 1966. Last week, in an 11th-hour decision, retiring South African Prime Minister John Vorster announced that South Africa would conduct its own independence election in the territory, rather than allow U.N. troops and civilian personnel to supervise the election of a transitional Namibian government...
...amount of legal or diplomatic hairsplitting can obscure where international justice now lies. The world community cannot leave this latest South African outrage unchallenged. The Security Council, led by the Western powers, must act swiftly to adopt Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's proposal for U.N.-supervised elections and condemn South Africa's intransigence. If South Africa still refuses to back down and accept the U.N. plan, the U.N. must declare South Africa an immediate threat to international peace and enact harsh economic sanctions against the apartheid state, including a potentially devastating oil embargo...
...watchword of the can-do American philosophy, is good. The skeptics ignore the reality that a slow-growth or no-growth philosophy could kill the promise of upward mobility. That may be acceptable to the middle-and upper-income people who dominate the antinuclear movement. But it would condemn the poor and the jobless to a perpetuation of their have-not status and could well endanger the future of American democracy, in which the social and economic inequalities of the free system are made tolerable by the hope of improvement...
...According to high-ranking Egyptians, he is considering several options. He could, for example, cancel the 1975 Sinai Disengagement Agreement. This would enormously increase tension in the area and could start a chain of events leading to new hostilities. Sadat could also ask the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel's occupation of Arab lands and demand immediate withdrawal. If Begin emerges from Camp David splattered with blame for the summit's failure, then Washington might find it very difficult to veto such a resolution...
Sadat is thus likely to proceed with caution, at least for a while. He might restrict himself to asking the Security Council merely to condemn the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. Not only are these communities opposed by factions inside Israel, but the U.S. has branded them "illegal...