Word: indirectness
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Teller's influence these days is indirect. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he serves the Government only as a member of the Air Force scientific advisory board. But the highly hawkish views that have made him a suspect figure to many fellow scientists win him respect from the Reagan White House, where he is an honored guest. He was among the 13 scientists who dined at the mansion last week. More to the point, Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth, 31 years younger than Teller, has long admired the old lion...
...fact, TIME has learned from F.D.N. sources that the Reagan Administration has been and is deeply involved with the attacking contras. According to those sources, the U.S. control is indirect. At the top, they say, the Nicaraguan Democratic Front has a "political coordinating committee" made up largely of conservative and moderate Nicaraguans who fled their country during the last three years of Sandinista rule. Also included is Colonel Enrique Bermúdez Varela, a former member of the Somoza National Guard who was his country's military attaché in Washington until the Sandinistas took over...
...question of responsibility for the massacre at Shatila and Sabra is actually an easily resolved one. The Israeli Commission on the massacre divided responsibility into "direct" and "indirect" realms, and then took the unprecedented step of holding Israel's leaders "indirectly" responsible, and thus subject to punishment (conversely when at Nuremberg, the concept of indirect responsibility was first promulgated, it was done so by revenge seeking victors of a terrible war--the Israelis submitted themselves to this type of scrutiny voluntarily). The fact that the Phalangist butchers who slaughtered their own Arab brethren have not even been named, let alone...
...Israelis have thus accepted their indirect responsibility for the massacre and have acted in a way which affirms the strength of their morality, a morality which is utterly tacking in her Arab neighbors, but expected of Israel by a demanding and perhaps hypocritical world. Mr. Bisharat wishes to go further, however, and seems to say that the Israelis foresaw the probability of a massacre and gave the Phalangists as much aid as possible in carrying it out. This interpretation, tempting though it may be for those with a blind hatred of Israel, simply does not make sense: after having proclaimed...
...your Essay you refer to the "principle of indirect responsibility" and conclude, "The report is about the treacherous and devious mind. And it says as clearly as may ever be said that we know what we know, and what we know, we act on - or do not." What are the implications for the majority of Israelis, who, knowing the findings of the commission, continue to support Begin and Sharon...