Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower signed the Executive Order authorizing a code of conduct for prisoners of war, he created the first explicit standard for all GIs in captivity. No longer may Air Force pilots resign from the service with an honorable discharge after the same misconduct which sends Army ex-prisoners to jail...
...communiqué acclaimed the Bandung conference and repeated the five principles of "peaceful coexistence" worked out by Nehru and Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, with one slight amendment. The principle of "noninterference in each other's internal affairs" was made more explicit by the addition of the phrase "for any reason of economic, political or ideological character." The communique supported the Soviet plan for a complete ban of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. But the key passage was the declaration that "the legitimate rights of the Chinese People's Republic in regard to Formosa" should be satisfied...
...joke. An aide decided on his own to ignore the explicit rule against any talk with Russians, took the message and in two hours it was transmitted to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. In it Soviet Russia declared that "it would be honored to receive in Moscow in the near future the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Herr Adenauer . . . to discuss the establishing of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations between the [two countries] and the examination of questions connected with it." Reading the note in his office overlooking the Rhine, the granite face of old Konrad Adenauer split into...
...past few years. Witnesses such as Harvard's Wendell H. Furry, Cornell's Marcus Singer, and several New York City public school teachers, have steadfastly refused to speak about former associates before investigating groups on grounds of conscience. As a consequence of their defiance, they face the possibility of explicit, legal punishment, as well as the more intangible sanctions that many former Communists have encountered...
Perhaps in the final analysis, however, the question of an individual's refusal to inform on grounds of conscience is a theological one. To be sure, no moral theology offers explicit maxims to guide the decisions of a witness, but all lay down borad base lines...