Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ireland, Argentina and Chad, three unrelated cadres of terrorists called international attention to their alleged grievances by kidnaping innocent people and threatening to kill them unless certain concessions were made. The terrorists' actions posed once again the classic dilemma of whether or not to meet extortionists' demands. Governments that refuse to be blackmailed must answer to conscience and public opinion if hostages perish. On the other hand, yielding in the name of humanitarianism may only encourage more terrorism. In either case, the safety of the hostages cannot be assured, as the three incidents testify...
...dilemma for women is that they are still unlikely to win a rape conviction if they cannot present evidence of a struggle with the rapist, though fighting back may bring mutilation or murder. In an extreme example of this bias, a one-armed Chicago woman who had been raped at gunpoint was asked accusingly by the defense attorney: "Did you even try to grab the gun?" Yet researchers increasingly agree with the feminist advice to fight back unless the attacker is armed. Says Clinical Psychologist James Selkin, director of the Denver General Hospital's Violence Research Unit: "A potential...
...dilemma familiar to other artists of the 1900s: the crisis of hand made "reality" in an age of photography...
...often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights and the U.S. promise of "liberty for all," habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, all mean freedom for the sick as well as the hale, until a criminal fantasy is acted upon or a mental illness unmistakably manifest...
...executions since 1960, France has had ten (admittedly nonpolitical) since 1964. The Madrid government is torn between its desire to win European respectability and its response to public opinion at home, which runs strongly against political terrorism. Says a highly placed aide in the Spanish Cabinet: "It is a dilemma of conscience. The man in the street, your cook, your taxi driver, is very happy to see order restored. Killing police in the streets is intolerable. These people [the terrorists] are guilty, but we are failing to prove it to the outside...