Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken a rigorous censorship for granted because of the ceaseless hot-and-cold war with the Arab nations. Only one paper, Ha'Aretz, which has no party affiliation, sharply criticized the government. "While the Bui publication could have hurt the interests of the state," said an editorial, "that harm is nothing compared with the harm caused Israel by the secret arrests and trial. Whoever reads the description of the affair will get a sad picture of our nation...
...military is an autocracy in which actions are dictated but not attitudes; it may be an unpleasant experience for the free citizen (and perhaps that is a good thing) but the constant in and out flux fosters a perspective without which the military would lose touch, to the ultimate harm...
...Thomas Aquinas and others expanded Augustine's standards, and the list has been elaborated ever since. Modern criteria of a just war include 1) discrimination between killing soldiers and civilians; 2) reasonable possibility of victory; 3) "proportionality" between the amount of harm done by the war and the benefits hoped...
...really achieve anything. The ethnic segregation of the country will take years to overcome--if it can be overcome at all--and until it is, any expression of political solidarity would be largely artificial. On the other hand, forcing the centralization of Nigeria could do a great deal of harm. With tribal hostilities still intense, political integration and the consequent tribal intermingling could spark a repetition of last October's devastating riots...
...nation that students are going to come up with the answers to these problems in their spare time is at best an unrealistic expectation, and at worst, a surrender to the programming of Princeton's Alumni Inertial Guidance System, which keeps us safely on course and out of harm's way--the twentieth century...