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Refugees' reports, for instance, are often dismissed as unreliable. But, as even Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (D-N.Y.), an authority on Asia and trenchant critic of the Administration, has pointed out, this contempt is ill founded. Refugees ranging from the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to Cambodians fleeing Pol Pot carried the truth about the regimes they were fleeing, though it was initially dismissed. Solarz writes, "It strains credulity to believe that the refugees escaping "yellow rain" in Asia, alone among the victims of repression, are engaged in a monumental hoax...
HIGHWAY 4, FLORIDA--The baseball season here is already over. The players have packed up and moved on, either to the big leagues and the adulation of millions, or the bushes and the contempt of waitresses at all-night diners on the bus trail from Butte to Lethbridge...
Whether Harvard's union-busting tactics are based on misguided paternalism or outright contempt for workers' fights, it is high time that students in this University take a stand and object to use of their tuition dollars to subsidize the University's unfair labor practices. Michael Dinnerstein Harvard College '82 Harvard Clerical Worker '82-'83 Harvard Law School...
WESTERN CIVILZATION has always rather arrogantly prided itself on its ability to master the universe, and with few exceptions, has historically regarded the rituals of near eastern civilizations with a good deal of contempt. Americans, in particular, seem skeptical of the mystical nature of Eastern beliefs, in part because they consider them backwards and occult, but more fundamentally, because few truly understand the meaning of such beliefs...
...actually describe themselves as anti-American. "There's a big difference between the American people and the American government. We feel closer to the American people than we do to our own government," said Bard. Nevertheless, it must not be forgotten that almost all German leftists hold contempt for an America they see as incapable of producing leadership with any greater sophistication than Ronald Reagan and his "cowboy mentality...