Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropping over snowbound Oklahoma from Army helicopters to save starving cattle, and a salesman touting the "750-h.p., air-cooled, 12-cylinder" wonders of an Army tank, which a youthful customer promptly "buys" and drives proudly offscreen. In the ad Army, no one is asked to kill the implacable foe or save the world for democracy. A fellow could almost gain the impression that fighting...
...through its lack of contact with Peking, seemed by default to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Nixon and he agreed that the U.S. was not the prime adversary of either China or Russia, but that each was the other's worst foe. In that situation, they saw a possibility for maneuver. In measured moves, Nixon began relaxing Washington's rigid policy toward China...
Within the military, Calley friend and Calley foe alike agreed that the President's motives were political. In Viet Nam, SP/5 Willy Rowand of Sunshine Harbor, N.J., observed: "Nixon is playing politics, of course." Said Captain Leroy Saage of San Antonio: "It is a political decision, coinciding in part with the mail he's been getting. Nixon has also implied that he feels the verdict is unjust. It gives the public an impression that Nixon has no faith in military jurisprudence...
Professor Kennan should turn at random to the annual debates in the General Assembly of the United Natiohs. These documents are enlightening for their records of verbal exorcism of apartheid by friend and foe alike. Consider, for instance, the session of Autumn 1963 in which the South African system was seen by the United States Government as 'toxic,' by the Soviet Union as 'shameful,' by England as 'abhorrent,' by Belgium as 'thoroughly repugnant,' by India as 'hateful,' by Guinea as 'inhuman,' by Bolivia as 'the negation of all social purpose,' by Japan as 'fundamentally immoral,' by Canada as 'degrading...
...that participation in an abortion would earn them automatic excommunication. In Boston, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros caused an ecumenical fuss by calling abortion "the new barbarism." Yet the conservative Protestant journal Christianity Today went further, describing abortion-on-demand as "mass homicide." Such language, argues Lawyer John Noonan, an articulate foe of abortion (see box), obscures the issues. "Abortion is not murder; it is abortion," he says, "just as manslaughter is not murder; it is manslaughter...