Word: pacifistic
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DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death...
...enough Graham is careful not to antagonize either side on political issues. He has stressed, each time he states his position on nuclear disarmament, that he does not support unilateral disarmament, and that the relationship between the styles of evangelism is different but not adversary. "I'm not a pacifist," he said Tuesday at his Institute of Politics (IOP) speech...
...bishops then moved on to reformulate their pro-life viewpoints on a number of issues, most notably the nuclear-arms buildup. Though the hierarchy is not pacifist, it declared in 1976 that the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances is evil, and that a deterrent strategy that even threatens to use them is also evil. Led by their activist president, Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, the bishops will meet in November to issue a new declaration that could endorse a bilateral freeze, unless moderates like Terence Cardinal Cooke prevail...
...bilateral nuclear-weapons freeze contend that the plan makes sense, since both the U.S. and the Soviet Union already have large enough arsenals to annihilate each other's populations many times over. Supporters also reject the charge made by hawkish critics that the movement is ultimately a pacifist one that plays into the hands of the Soviets. They point out that the freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond that, a President...
...statements and decisions have fueled a firestorm of protest in Europe against what many there see as the clear and present danger of nuclear war on the Continent. While ostensibly aimed at both superpowers, the political agitation in Western Europe has a distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend as Britain's former Prime Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There...