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...world cannot be silent in the I face of such human suffering and such cynical disregard for international law and agreements." So declared Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he presented a new ten-page report that, for the second time this year, accused the Soviet Union and its ally Viet Nam of using biochemical weapons against native rebel forces in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia in flagrant violation of two major international accords. Since 1975, U.S. officials charge, nearly 10,000 people have died as the result of "yellow rain," a distinctive yellowish mist that is sprayed from...
...made when C & C condemned the use of obliteration bombing in World War II. Responding to critics, Niebuhr wrote in 1944: "Laymen are not capable of judging detailed problems of strategy, but general principles of strategy ought to remain under democratic scrutiny. The military mind is inclined to disregard moral and political factors in strategy. It is the business of sensitive citizens to bring pressure upon the civilian strategists for the holding of the military strategists in check...
Turnage calmly condemned non-registrants during his address, saying "A citizen cannot disregard what laws he wants to," and added "morally correct students were those who registered...
...bishops to that of nuclear arms, surveys by the National Opinion Research Center show that 77% of Catholics think that the law should permit abortion for a danger to the mother's life, and 44% for social reasons, such as a family's poverty. American Catholics widely disregard the Pope and bishops on birth control. Says Loyola University of Chicago Psychologist and ex-Priest Eugene Kennedy: "You can't deliver a Catholic vote on anything any more-Catholics are not one isolated bloc with homogeneous interests...
...President can disregard these clear sentiments and gamble that his still-immense personal popularity can tide himself and his party through the 1984 election. But that would be a high-risk move, indeed, and it would do nothing to alleviate the nation's growing fears on both the nuclear and economic fronts...