Word: forswearing
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Words and ideas formerly on the extremes have engulfed the cultural mainstream. But have they polluted it? Many people think so. The moral right wing surely does, and it has friends in powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator) lobby...
...Life Movement, which directed the Chinese to be dutiful, disciplined, loyal and clean. Toward the grander end of curbing the spread of communism, men were told not to wipe their noses in public, soldiers not to spit, pedestrians not to urinate in the street. Everyone was required to forswear opium...
...formal system for determining who can serve in the new government. According to an American consultant on Garner's team, the U.S. is considering a plan to purge the top three tiers of Baathist leadership--involving at least 30,000 people. Another proposal would require all government employees to forswear loyalty to the Baath Party. Of course, people desperate for work are likely to sign anything...
...compromise to prevent renewed fighting. Indonesian troops are already flooding into Aceh. Ultimately, some 50,000 are expected in the province, poised to launch an offensive designed to end the 27-year conflict once and for all. The rebels had until May 12 to lay down their arms and forswear independence, but recent reports state that GAM leaders have ordered fighters to take up defensive positions. "The Indonesians are throwing everything they have into this," says the negotiator, "and GAM knows if they allow themselves to be crushed they won't be able to rise again for another 20 years...
...British official, that makes "dealing with Syria so important." None of this implies that after the allied troops take Tikrit, they will smartly turn left and head to Damascus. Administration policy, insofar as there is one, holds that the demonstration of American power in Iraq will encourage Syria to forswear terrorism and any ambitions to acquire weapons of mass destruction. But the Syrian regime is on notice that if it does not start to change its policies, it may find that the U.S. is prepared...