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...dirt." Rosalynn Carter voiced the same refrain in campaign appearances for her husband in Washington, New York City and Jackson, Miss., calling the captives "hostages of a mob and a government that have become one and the same." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance demanded that Iran permit neutral doctors to examine the hostages. Ghotbzadeh did relent a bit on this point, saying that the government had decided to allow some foreign journalists to visit the Americans...
...evolutionary analysis of behavior is neutral with respect to the nature/nurture issue. More precisely, the genetic and developmental programming which is responsible for a given behavior can either be closed to or susceptible to environmental modification. This depends on the species and behavior under discussion. The complexity of the theoretical and empirical issues involved leads understandably to a wide spectrum of opinion within the field on certain questions, especially human behavior. Therefore, to assert that sociobiologists believe behavior is "genetic" and hence ineradicable or unmodifiable is an unscientific and unethical misrepresentation which plays into the hands of those who SFTP...
Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills familiar all over the U.S., but raised to the nth power; part lonely company town. But, above all, it is an intellectual hothouse not quite like any other...
...their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point. Said Carter: "This is a reprehensible thing, a disgrace to every person who believes in civilization or decency." At the State Department, officials issued a statement demanding that Iran permit a || neutral observer to check on the hostages. Hodding Carter, the dels partment's spokesman, told reI porters: "All the hostages have not been seen, and we have no way of knowing the condition of those people...
...international norms of jurisprudence. For the sake of the embassy personnel and in the interest of international law, research should be undertaken immediately to study the possibility of recognizing the legitimacy of the Iranian people's claim for a trial, and eventually the possibility of conducting a trial on neutral territory. Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah would be able to get the kind of medical help his doctors would insist on. The possibility of putting on trial even a head of state would also, in the long run, be a sound...