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This diplomacy of imagery lets the world slip even closer to nuclear disaster. America and the Soviets converse in an odious geopolitical dialogue--where the language is arms sales and the conversation is in the small (though growing larger) battles between our surrogates. Or the words are sometimes spoken with domestic arms build-ups like the one signaled by the President's first budget. This unnecessary hardware not only hurts our troubled economy, it also begs to be used--the most harrowing possibility of all. Direct negotiations between the superpowers for arms limitation and, eventually, disarmament, and mutual attempts...
...audience listened in, to say how delighted she was to be looking at all "the beautiful white people." And France's Prime Minister Raymond Barre, who has a reputation for putting his pied in his bouche, described last October's bombing of a Paris synagogue as "this odious attack that was aimed at Jews and that struck at innocent Frenchmen"-a crack that not only implied Jews were neither innocent nor French but also suggested that the attack would have been less odious had it been more limited...
Philosophy is odious and obscure...
...policies. In domestic political matters, the refashioned Politburo is believed to be pragmatic, though its newest member, Mieczyslaw Moczar, 66, is a ruthless hardliner. As Interior Minister in the late 1960s, a position that gave him control of the security forces, Moczar brutally suppressed student demonstrations and led an odious anti-Semitic campaign that drove thousands of Jews from Poland...
...switched top campaign staff positions too often at first. His aides are still not convinced that his chief adviser, David Garth, made the right decision in mid-August when he asked some 75,000 campaign workers to work solely on fundraising. Many declined because they found cadging money odious, and thus were lost to field work such as organizing rallies and getting pro-Anderson voters registered...