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Shevardnadze went public with his intentions in a remarkable mea culpa speech to the Supreme Soviet in October 1989. Reversing a policy of decades of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not only that, he continued, but by invading Afghanistan "we had set ourselves against all humanity, ignored universal human values." Finally, he said, Moscow planned "to curtail all our military bases as well as our military presence abroad by the year...
...recent mea culpa notwithstanding, it seems incredible that Lee did not know of the military's discriminatory policy. After all, he presided over debate before the council during which several students testified that ROTC expressly excludes gays. Lee insists he didn't notice. Either he's lying, or he was oblivious to the proceedings of the meeting...
...culpa. Mea culpa...
...next night, Rather departed from the customary Evening News format to offer a personal word. Along with a kind of primer on journalism -- "Trying to ask honest questions and trying to be persistent about answers is part of a reporter's job" -- he served up a tepid mea culpa on having cut Bush off at the end: "Ending live television interviews under time pressures sometimes isn't done as gracefully as we hope or intend, and last night was one of those times...
...daily newspaper in South Korea. Unusual though it was, the public apology by Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam, 60, was only the first to be offered by losers of South Korea's first free presidential election in 16 years. Rival Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, 62, issued his mea culpa two days later, conceding his "unbearably heavy responsibility" for the victory two weeks ago of Roh Tae Woo, 55, the candidate of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By splitting the opposition vote, the two Kims had allowed Roh to win with only 36.6% of the ballots cast...