Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eagerness to challenge practices that were once bunked at. This demand for higher standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency to condemn prematurely and to burn today's leaders with the laser of hindsight. It is a particularly painful period both for public leaders and for a people in need of leaders who merit confidence...
...armed conflict be tween two of its members. If NATO contributes positively toward the settlement of the Cyprus question-contributes satisfactorily from Greece's point of view, that is-then it would be possible for Greece to reconsider its stand toward NATO. [The alliance, Caramanlis suggested, must unanimously condemn Turkish aggression, and pressure Turkey to accept less than 40% of Cyprus...
...President Ford's consideration of amnesty to draft evaders. We were outraged when the Germans did nothing to show their disapproval of Hitler's action against the Jews. And yet, when people of conscience refuse to participate in what they feel is a morally equivalent action, we condemn them...
...probation for six months. Though the sentence has some support in Germany, it set off protests in both Israel and France: Davar, a leading Israeli daily, criticized the court for "sticking to the dry letter of the law"; in Paris, left, right and center united to condemn what the daily newspaper Combat called a "revolting" verdict...
...international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence and democracy of Cyprus...