Word: mutedness
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Until now, the pattern has proved sadly familiar: muted threats unsupported by effective action. Accordingly, Carter should no longer allow convenience to dictate his responses. He should pressure the regime to commute Kim's and others' sentences, free the universities, and encourage the people to decide for themselves the form...
"Vota si!" The exhortation seemed to come from every billboard, radio and TV set in the country, and despite a muted chorus of dissent, the issue was never really in doubt. Last week, in a national plebiscite held seven years to the day after the violent overthrow of their last...
Even within the military there is some liberal dissent. One man, speaking in muted tones at an air force base near Buenos Aires, said he joined the forces to protect himself and his family. "My brother was involved in leftist politics, and I was afraid I'd be indicted by...
THE PROTESTERS: Theirs is the saddest story of the whole affair. Stork and Hagen lost a couple of dozen hours spent in court, and quite a bit of sleep. But the more than 150 protesters who marched through Quincy House courtyard that Friday night lost much more--the impact of...
Three years in the making under the joint auspices of the State Department and the President's Council on Environmental Quality, The Global 2000 Report to the President represents the accumulated findings, statistics and analyses of 13 Government agencies, from the Department of Agriculture to the CIA. On the...