Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night surreptitiously sneaked over to the Justice's Washington apartment for advice on a political appointment--Brandeis, as a Justice proffered his advice quietly but persistently, using Wilson lieutenants as intermediaries. The depth of his feeling on several prominent issues of the day the need for a Zionist homeland and the cause of Progressivism also made behind-the-scenes lobbying for specific policies a temptation Brandeis could not resist...
That in a way, is the irony of The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection. For all their machinations, both men emerge as wise and present leaders--men whose visions helped bring America Keynesian economics and compassionate social welfare policies, and helped give the world a Zionist homeland (thanks to their vigorous advocacy at home and abroad). Though Murphy refuses to entertain the possibility seriously, there is a place for informal judicial involvement in America's policy-making apparatus so long as judges steer clear of entanglement that could prejudice their decisions. For as the lives of Brandeis and Frankfurter show, judges often...
...worse now than they were during the three decades of war in that region from 1945 to 1975, when a settlement of sorts emerged. The Salient has featured an extensive article by a former North Vietnamese leader who now rails against the failures and lies of communism in his homeland. The campus conservatives have presented similar characters at public demonstrations, and the rhetoric is predictable: The United States precipitated the horrors of communist rule by pulling out. The Cold Warriors could have told...
...based on examinations of physical evidence, including environmental samples, as well as the testimony of eyewitnesses to yellow-rain attacks, journalists and doctors treating refugees. Said Stoessel of the use of these chemicals in Indochina: "Thousands have been killed or severely injured. Thousands have also been driven from their homeland by the use of these agents." As for Afghanistan, he added, Soviet forces have used a variety of lethal and nonlethal chemical weapons against rebel forces since the invasion in December...
...nuclear missiles in Europe. The defense of one's own homeland, before being a right, is a duty. We can't act like sheep when facing him who intends to remain a wolf. I am against war, but if my country is being attacked, it is my duty, not my right, to repel the attack. I see the [nuclear] rearming that they are carrying out in the Soviet Union. It would be an act of weakness for NATO to disarm itself while leaving the Soviet Union armed...