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...says something about the conference of Islamic Foreign Ministers in Islamabad last week that one of the more moderate voices heard there was that of Iran's Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. "When we condemn the U.S. for supporting Israel in Palestine and for intervening in Viet Nam," said Ghotbzadeh, who was clearly the star of the six-day meeting, "we should not hesitate for one minute to condemn the Soviet Union for intervening in Afghanistan." Trailed by reporters wherever he went, the tall, dark-haired Iranian Foreign Minister went well beyond rhetorical denunciation of Moscow's "adventurism" in Afghanistan...
...hands know what is going to happen now around Washington. Some will counsel the President in the virtues of doing nothing. Some will condemn the military minds that planned the strike. The allies will scream even louder than they have. The President will be alone with his obligation, his conscience and his will more now than ever before. How he puts this all together will decide if he survives as President, if the U.S. marches ahead or cringes...
...forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues ... we need only refer to Santayana's apologias for Mussolini and Stalin, Heidegger's support of Hitler, Sartre's refusal to condemn the concentration-camp economy of the Soviet Union...
...then, does someone like Laurence Malin--who could have done other things with his time--spend several years struggling with McLean? Malin, who is working on a book on world human rights based partially on his extensive travels, finds it "an unacceptable anomaly that while we condemn the authoritarian countries of the world for their repression of speech--Sakharov and the others--we allow a similar repression of speech in America's workplaces...
P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...