Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have been sound: by shrinking his lines of defense, he should have, theoretically, made it easier to protect the most important areas of the country. But the same analysts roundly condemn Thieu's execution of that strategy. A "retrograde" maneuver ? as the experts euphemistically term such a withdrawal ? requires extensive planning and a coordinated command structure. Elaborate measures must be taken to save all equipment possible and to destroy what cannot be moved. "Above all," says a Pentagon tactician...
...rate, those who are quick to judge cannot have it both ways: they cannot condemn the violence of the war and simultaneously criticize the U.S. for putting an end to its part in the violence...
...time when, globally, Israel is increasingly isolated. The nations of Western Europe appear willing to bargain away Israel's security in return for access to Arabian oil. Arab petropower seems aimed at blacklisting Jews from many transactions in international finance, causing President Gerald Ford last week sharply to condemn such practices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Last fall UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from some of its activities, and the United Nations General Assembly applauded the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, who frankly spoke at the U.N. of generations of war against Israel, as a legitimate spokesman for Palestinians...
...condemn a fetus to death because it is "only potentially a person" is like condemning the dawn because it is only potentially...
...pattern can be seen as a "checkmate" in which the subject can neither move nor choose not to move without running into contradictory and paradoxical pressures and demands. A husband might suggest, for instance, that his wife spend more time with the children and later implicitly condemn her for this. If the wife is not allowed to question the consistency of his demands, and they persist, confusion and self-doubt push the limits of sanity. A mother might ask her son for a kiss, but her body language and tone of voice tells him she doesn't really want...