Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's end, but most of them will probably come from the ranks of the old outlawed organization. Says Erlebach: "You don't expect us to create a Communist party from Salvation Army members, do you?" The appearance of the new Communist party poses an interlocking dilemma for the government of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. It can hardly suppress the National Democrats without also taking legal action against the Communists. Yet any move against the new Communist party will run the risk of unduly provoking the Soviets. At the same time, West German inaction toward the National Democrats will...
...thousands of Czechoslovaks-including Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Foreign Minister Jifi Hajek-were relaxing on their first vacation abroad in years. For them, and for ordinary citizens who fled the country in the first clutch of fear, Russia's continuing occupation poses an agonizing dilemma-especially as it has become clear that, unlike the refugees from Hungary in 1956, they can go home again...
...Minh trail often resembles a network of busy truck roads, the Communists still use elephants to haul their supplies. Not long ago, an American pilot sighted an elephant carrying rockets. His strafing run killed the animal and set off a series of secondary explosions. There was a slight dilemma on his return to base: should he put the event down as an enemy killed in action or as an enemy vehicle destroyed...
...neglect the guidance of the church, morality could easily become merely subjective. That would be disastrous." They also affirmed that "neither this encyclical nor any other document of the church takes away from us our right and duty to follow our conscience." They noted the dilemma of "faithful couples" who cannot easily support another child, and of wives whose health might be endangered by pregnancy. The statement added that Humanae Vitae contains "no threat of damnation" against Catholics who fall short of its teachings and that, "far from being excluded from the sacraments, those in difficulties are invited to receive...
...MOREA'S dilemma is that his people have picked up weapons without picking up enough support to make the weapons matter. The street hip community--which does not include the flower child hippie, "who is still tied to property relationships"--never got over 200 in Boston this summer. Near the end, after several weeks of pounding from the police, it was down to fewer than 20. With so few troops, weapons are meaningless, unless the hips take to the hills and employ insurrectionist tactics...