Word: harshest
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...Vatican terms that meant that Küng, 51, must stop teaching Catholic theology at West Germany's University of Tubingen. It is the harshest action against any important scholar since the era before the liberalizing breezes of the Second Vatican Council, and one that was explicitly endorsed by Pope John Paul II. During the Vatican Council Küng was an adviser to the West German hierarchy. His moderate reformist concepts won the admiration of, among others, the Polish bishop who became John Paul II. But since the council, Kung has more and more acted as a kind...
...immediate release of the American hostages. On the other hand, Soviet propaganda has done what it could to make mischief. At first the Soviet Farsi-language broadcasts, beamed from Baku into northern Iran, harshly criticized the U.S. These were toned down after Washington protested. But last week, in its harshest volley to date, Pravda accused the U.S. of trying to "blackmail Iran by massing forces on its frontiers" and said that Washington was turning the crisis into "one of the serious international conflicts of the postwar era." The U.S. protested that the Pravda editorial was "deplorable," and Secretary of State...
...twelve Justices portrayed in the book, Burger receives the harshest verdict. He is limned as a vain and petty man who consistently tries to bend or ignore the court's rules in order to get his way. His frequent vote switching exasperates his colleagues: after one flipflop, Justice Byron White threw his pencil on the conference table and shouted, "Jesus Christ, here we go again!" The chief is portrayed as a legal lightweight whose opinions are shoddy and poorly thought out. Of one Burger opinion dealing with court-ordered school busing in Detroit, Justice Lewis Powell is quoted...
...harshest invectives, however, were leveled against the U.S., which was accused of endangering detente by placing new weapons not covered by SALT II on the doorstep of the Soviet Union. Fumed Central Committee Official Valentin Falin: "How would the U.S. have reacted if we, the Soviet Union, after concluding SALT II, started bringing medium-range weapons closer to their territory?" To drive home the argument, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported, other officials privately drew a parallel with Cuba in 1962. One Moscow editor told him: "There was a crisis when you thought missiles in Cuba could...
Speaking sternly before the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young last week issued the harshest denunciation ever expressed by the U.S. Government toward Israel's policy of staging pre-emptive raids on Palestinian outposts in southern Lebanon. This time he was not speaking just for himself. Said Young, who resigned under fire last month but will retain his U.N. post until later this year: "We condemn the policy of artillery shelling and attacks on Lebanese towns, villages and refugee camps ... Let there be no doubt or ambiguity about this. We cannot and do not agree with Israel...