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...abortion-clinic killings nationwide in the past two years. There have also been countless lesser acts of violence against abortion providers and their patients, including verbal and physical harassment, assaults and fire bombings. Government officials and activists on both sides of the contentious abortion issue were quick to condemn the killings. "You don't use murder to solve the problem of other murder. It is heresy," said the Rev. Flip Benham, director of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "While there are two sides to the issue of abortion, there...
Some critics argue that many countries will simply buy weapons elsewhere if the U.S. refuses to sell them, but this weak rationalization does not make the new policy any less immoral or irresponsible. Global arms proliferation must come to a grinding halt. We cannot condemn other countries for acting as merchants of death while our greedy corporations rake in money that should have remained in the Third World. These funds could have stayed in developing countries to sponsor projects such as irrigation or child vaccination--projects that increase the quality of life instead of promoting death and destruction. We need...
Minutes after the attack, the commander of the Bangladeshi battalion in * Bihac requested an air strike by NATO planes under the standard rules of engagement. Despite the fact that the U.N. Security Council would shortly condemn the assault as "a heinous act of violence," U.N. commanders in Sarajevo refused to pass the request on to NATO. As the Serbs continued to harass U.N. forces, holding peacekeepers hostage and closing down the Sarajevo airport, U.N. commanders did nothing. "The U.N. is never going to fight back," remarked one American official, in an attempt to explain the commanders' conviction that air strikes...
...Russian wrangling helped keep the CSCE from reaching any agreement on what to do about the war in Bosnia. Russia, which sympathizes with Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, blocked a proposal to condemn Serb attacks on the Muslim enclave of Bihac. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suggested a bland appeal for a truce, but even that failed...
...resolution, written by Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69, did not explicity condemn Rudenstine's compromise...