Word: favor
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While the government continues to be under pressure to make a clean breast of the Shin Bet scandal, the public is ambivalent. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv newspaper Hadashot showed that 47.6% of those questioned opposed an inquiry of any kind, while 28.8% were in favor and 19.4% supported a secret investigation...
...take long for me to see how flawed the "frustration" argument is. A more complete answer is much more self-critical, based largely on the American psyche. Other nations, after all, share similar frustrations. But they don't respond the way we do. We Americans favor and justify retaliation because we see things in terms of the good-guys and the bad-guys. And, not surprisingly, the U.S. is almost always the good-guys in this neat formula...
This action is not the first time Bok has been involved with the Senate in urging sanctions against South Africa. Last year he endorsed and testified in favor of a sanctions bill introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). Bok also joined several other university presidents in signing a letter endorsing sanctions last July...
...Contras. On Wednesday, the House about-faced 221-209 on its earlier opposition to such aid and narrowly approved a $100 million aid package for the Contras. All that the President Reagan-backed bill needs to become law is approval by the Senate, which has already voted in favor of the bill once...
...that's the rub. The U.S. has yet to resolve itself into a firm stand against Nicaragua. We certainly don't feel strongly enough to send our own soldiers and most polls show that Americans don't favor funding the Contras. A $100 million out of a trillion dollar budget is a mere trifle for the House to spend in order to relieve some of the pressure about the threat to the south placed on them by Reagan and other conservatives...