Word: pacifistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have enough to kill and be killed a hundred times over again. Their historic experience in this century?unlike America's until Viet Nam?has not been the triumphant use of power but the experience of brute and futile power, blindly spent and blindly worshiped." Even in France, where pacifist sentiment is far less widespread than in other European countries, 63% of those polled consider a war in Europe "imaginable," and 30% thought it could occur in the next five years. hese fears have emerged at a particularly crucial moment. For the first time in NATO'S 32-year history...
...Soviet diplomat in Copenhagen was expelled by the Danish government after reportedly being caught passing money to peace organizations. But there is no concrete evidence that Moscow has been funding pacifist groups on a large scale, although the Soviets have been engaged in covert activity for so long that they rarely leave traces. Western Europe's well-organized Communists, however, have given organizational and financial support to pacifists. In France and Italy, the main organizations are virtual subsidiaries of powerful Communist parties. In West Germany, the extraordinary discipline of the Oct. 10 protest in Bonn was in good measure...
...nation bristling with nuclear weapons over which we have no control. Everyone in Europe wanted a pacifist...
While Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev engaged in his latest effort to strengthen pacifist opposition to the deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), West Germany's main opposition party for the past twelve years, faced both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity was that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party was so badly riven by the missile issue that it might not be able to retain power until the national elections scheduled for 1984. The challenge was that the Christian Democrats would have to contend with the widespread appeal...
...pacifist sentiment spreads across the Continent, Mitterrand's attitude is comforting to some fellow Europeans. West Germany's Schmidt has found the French President's public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains...