Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several and raise many questions: what is the role of the university? Can there be a place for a man who has both directed and participated in the murder of hundreds of thousands, violated international law and the U.S. constitution on countless occasions and on many occasions expressed his moral vacuousness? In considering the Kissinger appointment, the university administration has violated usual departmental procedures; is this an indication of the sort of effect Kissinger will have on an institution already rather distant from institution already rather distant from democracy in its operation? These are issues which are important not just...
Just what previous activity would such an appointment condone? Can it be argued that previous behavior is even germane to the hiring of Kissinger? President McGill has stated the university's position that those objecting to the appointment have applied extraordinary moral considerations and that "standards of review must be the same for all faculty members." The New York Times in an editorial has argued that no test beyond simple allegiance to country should be required. We do not feel that we are applying extraordinary standards. Judgments as to character are made as a matter of course in the appointment...
While Mengistu's move may advance Soviet aims in Africa (see box), it also relieves the U.S. of the moral burden of backing yet another bloodthirsty dictatorship. During February and March alone. Mengistu's forces are said to have killed between 2,000 and 4,000 of their opponents. Getachew Mekasha, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt, who defected in March, reckons that there are 25,000 political prisoners in Ethiopian jails. Says Mekasha, who is now teaching at California's Ambassador College in Pasadena: "The people in power in Addis Ababa today believe in the blind application...
...help them weave a pitch for the energy program into just about any speech they have scheduled to any kind of audience anywhere in the country. The President himself is unlikely to miss a chance, no matter what the context, to tuck in a remark or two on moral equivalents of war and the like. The Democratic National Committee and local party officials are putting together energy task forces to sell the White House policy to civic groups. The Administration is plotting ways to get its point across at the National Conference on Energy Education in June, so that good...
...1980s. No sooner had he stopped speaking, however, than critics-most notably Ralph Nader-began contending that the U.S., and the world, contains more oil than Carter seems to think. If that idea takes hold with the public, the President can scarcely hope to rally the U.S. for the "moral equivalent of war" against energy waste...