Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shrill Campuses. With more passion than logic, other businessmen blame Watergate for the poor business climate. But the shrillest cries for the President's removal come from the campuses. Student demonstrations are lackadaisical by the standards of the late '60s, but petitions are circulating in just about every school in the Midwest, and campus papers are having a field...
...been sterilized in California; 61 per cent of whom were immigrants. This record shows that eugenics, which Shockley proposes, is not an idea in the pure sense. Eugenics is sterilization of immigrants, of Jews in Germany, of black people in the U.S. today. Although Shockley's article uses racist logic to call for sterilization, eugenics measures affect white as well as blacks. Eugenics can be the spearhead of fascism as in Germany, where millions of Jews and non-Jews died in World...
...Archibald Cox: because Cox had refused to obey his orders. But he said not one word about why he had then totally reversed himself and had given up the tapes just as Cox had urged. No questioner then got the floor to say, "Wait a minute, Mr. President, what logic explains producing a governmental convulsion of this magnitude and then announcing amid the carnage that you agree after...
Though the Israelis have allowed Moslems free access to holy places like the Al Aqsa Mosque, Israeli occupation of the Old City, site of most of the religious shrines, remains unacceptable to proud Arabs. Logic would suggest that Israel retain Jewish sections of the city, but that an Arab administration run the Arab quarters, with a joint planning board and joint administration of common services. The U.N. could guarantee all religious faiths access to sacred shrines in this very special city. A compromise on this emotional issue, however, might well lead to the collapse of any Israeli government that...
...together. Most of these points were talked out in Secretary of State Rogers' futile journeys around the Middle East. But at no time have both sides simultaneously felt the same necessity to settle, and the final dismissing phrase to outside mediators was an objection to "imposed" solutions. The logic of such attitudes was that a new bloodletting was necessary before a new equilibrium could be ratified...