Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe. A President, who ate quiche, came up with a plan: NATO would put new missiles in Western Europe. If the Soviets would remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...will need the support of an informed, tough-minded citizenry. Such citizens are our best defense against shortsighted desires to withdraw from world affairs. They are our sturdiest bulwark against the dangerous illusion that Americans are possessed of superior virtue while those who oppose us are unworthy and evil. They are our greatest hope for achieving the breadth of mind to understand the feelings of other peoples and the reasons that lead them to contrary points of view. Above all, informed and active citizens will always be our strongest safeguard against public figures who would drive us into ill-considered...
...Wonderful Life, the angel allows the James Stewart character, George Bailey, to walk through his hometown and see what the town would have been like if George had never existed. George is an American saint. When he and his works are rescinded, the town becomes harsh and evil...
...misconduct was known, to bury the story would have been an insult to the voting public. Representative democracy relies on the free and accurate dissemination of information; the press whenever possible should avoid passing prior judgement on what the public does and does not need to know. "Hear no evil, see no evil," may be appropriate for monkeys, but not for a democracy...
...difference between journalists and Evil Empire theorists is that journalists are in the business of reporting change. (Each day editors and anchormen wake up, look out over the world's landscape and ask suspiciously, "Who moved?") When more than 100 imprisoned dissidents had been set free, nearly two months after Sakharov's release, a story from Moscow Correspondent Philip Taubman made the front page of the New York Times: SOVIET TURNS A BIG CORNER -- RELEASE OF DISSIDENTS MORE THAN A GESTURE. Taubman found in Sakharov's release not only Gorbachev's desire to soften international opinion but also his need...