Word: contemptable
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...Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law: it invites anarchy." Louis D. Brandeis wrote more than 50 years ago. His words apply as well today. Ambassador Kirkpatrick's support for the denials of freedoms around the globe--including her ludicrously self-serving distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes--provides more than the ironic backdrop for the current controversy that the majority editorial suggests...
...bear to death with her bare feet," succumbed with quiet dignity. Her celebrated feistiness had faded under the emotional strain of seeing her agency tarred by allegations ranging from perjury and conflict of interest by her top aides, to mismanagement and political favoritism. She also faced a congressional contempt citation for invoking, on Reagan's orders, Executive privilege to withhold subpoenaed EPA documents from House subcommittees. "She had come apart at the seams personally in the past two weeks," said one White House aide. "She was scared to death about going before Congress again...
When, acting on the President's instructions, she refused to yield the documents, she was slapped in December with the first contempt of Congress citation ever given to such a high official. She says she vainly tried to convince Reagan at a Feb. 18 meeting that his course was wrongheaded. Now she frets that she is in the tough spot of either disobeying the President's order or being lambasted as "the lady who has things to hide." Says an aide: "She feels that if she has any chance to keep her reputation and the agency...
Burford's impassioned self-defense apparently was prompted by the news she received last week that the Justice Department would no longer defend her in the contempt-citation suit. Officials there explained that it would be a conflict of interest to act as her lawyer at the same time that it was investigating charges of mismanagement at the agency. Responded Burford archly: "I think we just made a breakthrough. Now maybe we can get some good legal advice over here for a change...
...further disclosures by Kenny, the Sun or its parent News Group Newspapers Ltd., on the ground that publication would violate the former servant's contractual pledge of secrecy. News Group halted efforts to syndicate the series in other countries, a spokesman said, to avoid being held in contempt of court, but vowed to appeal the decision...