Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation of dissidents (especially those involved in Jewish emigration) makes different demands than their predecessors. They are no longer trying to change the Soviet system or to influence internal policies--they are simply asking to leave. They are not political in any oppositional sense. In fact the contradict the very philosophy of the human rights movement which is based on civil disobedience. Because they represent no direct threat to the Soviets, their captivity is difficult to defend and represents complete disregard for the rights...
...Foreign Relations Committee. After more than nine hours of talks with the highest Soviet leaders in Moscow, Percy predicted that the two nations would soon be discussing arms control again. Brezhnev and Reagan, he said, were sending "signals to each other ... in a sense through me." But then, to contradict such euphoria, "parts" of highly classified cables to the State Department from Ambassador to Moscow Thomas Watson, who had sat in on the talks, were "made available to the New York Times." The cables made the Soviets seem less eager to resume SALT. They added the piquant news that Percy...
...also learned that the West adheres to certain perceptions of Cambodia, which a first-hand viewpoint contradict...
Beneath the psychopolitical analyses lay the tragic facts: a brilliant mind battered by a career of controversy, a wife who was expert in her own field (sociology) but also opinionated and argumentative, protective of her husband but known to contradict him publicly. "It was a passionate marriage in every sense of the word," said one friend last week. But if Althusser murdered her, it was as a man whose mental balance had disastrously deteriorated. Calling on the suspect in Paris' Sainte Anne hospital, a judge who had come to tell Althusser that he was being charged with voluntary homicide...
...military government, the average annual growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product in Chile was 1.5 per cent (The World Bank Report; August, 1980). This figure should be contrasted to that of the 1960s (4.5 per cent) when Chile was under a democratically-elected regime. More importantly, these numbers contradict those claimed by The Junta, widely publicized in several government-paid advertisements in American newspapers. According to the Chilean National Institute of Statistics, the rate of unemployment has increased from 5.7 per cent in 1970 to 12.5 per cent in 1980. Of those who are employed, thousands earn no more...