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WHILE JEANNE KIRKPATRICK'S foreign policy may be too harshly pragmatical to be morally justifiable, as well as being overly short-sighted, the majority editorial commits a far more grievous error: By condemning U.S. actions which may be somewhat detrimental to human rights in Latin America, it fails to deal with the likelihood that total withdrawal from involvement in Latin American affairs will produce human tragedy on a far greater scale throughout this troubled region. For such withdrawal--no matter what hopes the majority would like to express about the possibility of prompting the Soviets and Cubans to also leave...
Actually, of course, the President neither expected nor wanted a recession as severe as the one that has begun. The most serious charge against him-and it is a grievous one-is that he failed to take sufficiently vigorous action against inflation until it soared past 18%. Once inflation had gone that far, a deep recession became inevitable: consumers simply had to cut back their buying of goods and services because prices were rising so much faster than incomes...
Montgomery said he hopes to help find professors to fill two positions in the department, including the one that Michael Walzer, professor of Government, will vacate next fall. "Walzer's departure is a grievous loss," he added...
...making grievous mistakes by imposing orthodoxies that will not stand up over the course of time...
...embargo on grain will come to be known as a grievous error in judgment. Grain will find its way to the U.S.S.R. through bogus buyers and sellers and middlemen...