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What the law asks, in effect, is for women having abortions to feel guilty about it--and that is a good thing. However much we approve of the right to an abortion, we must condemn the use of that right, just as we must condemn a soldier, or one who kills in selfdefense. And in condemning abortion we condemn ourselves. We should all feel guilty, after each abortion, for we are all part of the society that, of necessity, allows it. The state legislature has only been mistaken in trying to force this emotion through the code...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: No One Is Innocent | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...same time, the Soviet press eased up on denunciations of the boycott-though visitors who agree that the competition has not been hurt were widely quoted. Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, who was treated as an honored guest despite his refusal eight years ago to condemn the Arab terrorists in Munich, observed in a television interview: "The crowded stands are testimony to the fact that no blackmail and no boycott have been able to disrupt the Moscow Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Cheers,Jeers in Moscow | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...that exists in the Soviet Union obviously conflicts with the ideal of equality, which Marx called "the groundwork of Communism." Such an inconsistency was denounced by Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas in his 1957 classic The New Class, and elitism ranks high among the ideological sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument: the ease with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S.S.R.: How to Succeed by Really Trying | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...find the culprits. They will be apprehended and brought to a court of justice. Did any Arab ruler ever say so after the murder of our men? At any time for the past 32 years, since Israel came into being? There is this moral difference. Not only did we condemn those assassination attempts, we promised to bring them to justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Begin | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged the non-governmental delegates from fifty nations to "condemn the U.S. oppressors." Clark publicly condemned the aborted U.S. hostage rescue mission as "lawless and contrary to constitutional government...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Wald Participates in Tehran Conference | 6/3/1980 | See Source »

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