Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Maclean finds Tito at 65 "as alert, as decisive and as hardheaded as ever and as ready as ever to face resolutely, realistically and ruthlessly any situation that may confront him." But Maclean makes no final estimate of Tito's place in history, and even Tito himself shows a certain hesitancy. "Remember," he says, "there may be more to come...
...More than seven in ten students at either university," said the McGinnis-Mack report, "would deny an accused person the right to confront his accuser. More than four in ten believe that, there are situations where star-chamber proceedings are preferable to a public trial. About four in every ten believe there are groups to whom the right of peaceful public assembly should be denied...
...point that all these assets are likely to be wasted unless the U.S. is militarily, and above all psychologically, ready to use them-if deterrence fails. It takes a firm hand and steady nerves to face a small-war challenge, to resist the outcries against atomic weapons, and to confront the enemy with the choice of backing down or risking all-out war. Raising the prospect of such a challenge in advance is Kissinger's important service. At a time when public apathy, disarmament talk and budget-mindedness are being felt in the scales of U.S. policy. Auditor Kissinger...
...role of the World Council in relation to Christianity. "We of the churches can enjoy our fellowship with one another in the family of God-for the moment doing without reliance on scriptural, credal, ministerial or sacramental orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently...
Where the host nation keeps jurisdiction, the status-of-forces agreement specifically guarantees each G.I. the essentials of U.S. justice: the right to a fair and speedy trial, to confront hostile witnesses and subpoena friendly witnesses, to choose defense counsel (which the U.S. pays for) and to communicate at all times with U.S. Government representatives. A Senate addendum to the NATO treaty further requires the commanding officer of any G.I. in a foreign court to notify the State Department and the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives if he considers that the G.I.'s rights...