Word: deflections
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...liberal voting record the key issue. But though Iowa's voters tend to be conservative on most social issues, they are less so on matters of military and foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion by proclaiming, "If we are truly concerned about respect for life, we should enact a nuclear freeze, cancel the MX missile and stop sending arms to Central America...
...autonomous Palestinian confederation by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. He hopes that by joining forces with Amman he can build momentum for talks with Israel. According to diplomats in Amman, however, Hussein may have different motives for embracing Egypt. He may want to deflect U.S. disapproval if, as some diplomats expect, he decides to buy weapons from the Soviet Union. Or he may simply | be pursuing his policy of forging alliances, in this case with the most populous Arab country. "Jordan is always looking for friends in the region," says a Western official...
...rumored "shoot to kill" police orders. Blacks and Hispanics in Texas especially feared the Dallas police's reputation for a "shoot first ask questions later" behavior against minorities. One officer had just beer fired from the force, but community leaders said the firing was merely a cover-up to deflect criticism. And the week of the convention, police responded to minority criticism by saying: Of course minorities are shot by police more often; they shoot at us more often than others...
Reagan is not likely to give much ground in London. Speaking with reporters before leaving Washington, he defended his budget policy in a way calculated to deflect criticism at the summit...
...Riesman charged, student radicals look to the president as someone to blame "all that is hideous on." would not the presidents want to deflect that responsibility else-where? And if the presidents must indeed be held "inceasingly responsible to constituencies that are often antagonistic to each other," is it not natural and not inconvenient to blame al failures, real or imagined, upon some amorphous lack of authority...