Word: defer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sisco, who was in Jerusalem meeting Israeli officials, decided to "defer" his Jordanian visit. At the same time, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Harrison M. Symmes delivered a stinging note to the Amman government, protesting its failure to protect U.S. property and demanding prompt and full compensation. Jordan responded by demanding the recall of Symmes, a veteran foreign service officer who has spent 23 years in Arab countries. From Jerusalem Sisco traveled via Nicosia to Beirut, where anti-American students set the mood for his visit by throwing stones at the U.S. embassy, and then Teheran, the next scheduled stops after...
...difficult to sympathize with a society's indignation over broken windows and obstructions of traffic when that society's passivity sanctions a genocidal war in Southeast Asia. It is impossible to defer to principles of "law and order" that leave room for the cold-blooded murder of militant dissidents in their beds. It is unconscionable to respect a "democratic" process that is arranged and maneuvered by men whom no one elects...
Ideology seems like a feeble check on government, even to Marxists, and scarcely explains why the ruled defer to their rulers. Ceremony does explain. Legend, myth, and self-deception-the pomp of government-"siphon off dangerous emotions" and screen politics from public view. Cabinets, parliaments, and monarchy lacked the substance of power. Crossman wished to strip government of the Noble Lie and confront his audience with the garish clanking of the party machine. He may even have wished to demonstrate the drawbacks of the British system to Anglophile political scientists. But, as the Godkin series proceeded, he showed much affection...
...classes, we learn from the examples of our teachers that all we need do is talk about the war, because those people who do, who act, who run the country, will defer to our greater knowledge...
Though a new Communist Pathet Lao peace plan was delivered to Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist but Western-leaning Premier of Laos, he decided to defer a decision until the Cambodian situation settles down. In any case, the prospect that anything solid may emerge from the Pathet Lao plan is slight. As a precondition, the Communists insist that American planes halt their bombing in Laos. U.S. officials have indicated that the bombing will not stop, even at Souvanna's request. As Secretary of State William Rogers noted last week: "If North Viet Nam continues...