Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representative. Nonetheless, the suit was largely a symbolic gesture. The court is traditionally cautious and may decide not to intervene in the Iranian crisis. Even if the U.S. were to win a favorable ruling, the court would have no way of enforcing it other than by appealing to world opinion, for which Khomeini and his followers have already demonstrated little respect...
...knew was the lackey of Americans, suddenly in the U.S. for "medical" treatment. The guy is reportedly dying of cancer, yet he receives Kissinger and talks to him for 1 ½ hours. Then our government politely demands that if that's the case, well, for our public opinion, be nice enough and allow Iranian physicians to go check. That request was refused by the U.S. Government. Then we realize that the U.S. Government doesn't give a damn about public opinion in our country and by accepting the Shah, deliberately and openly tries to insult our people...
...payload, cost and political implications. Clearly, the Pershing II and cruises were the best solution to the new realities. Furthermore, neither was an entirely new system. Neither could be portrayed as a "terror" weapon like the ill-fated neutron warhead, which in the spring of 1978 had alarmed public opinion in Western Europe to the point where NATO governments hesitated about its deployment and President Carter decided to postpone the project...
...worldwide effort to save the Cambodian people from mass starvation continued to gather steam last week. A group of Western nations asked U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to declare the sprawling refugee camps along the Thai border to be internationally supervised "safe havens," protected by the force of world opinion. Private relief efforts were also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed...
...Khomeini obviously decided it was time to appeal to American public opinion...