Word: pacifistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Governments in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in particular could face a pacifist backlash if they blocked a Soviet-American agreement to get rid of shorter-range missiles. At present the Soviets have about 130 shorter-range weapons -- some 50 in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the rest in the western U.S.S.R. The U.S. has none at all; it controls the warheads for 72 shorter- range Pershing 1As in West Germany, but these are nonetheless considered German missiles, not subject to a U.S.-Soviet agreement. Thus if Gorbachev's latest proposal is rejected, the numbers of U.S. and Soviet shorter-range...
...half-century ago, the coveted award was given in absentia to German Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a writer and opponent of Nazism who died shortly after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium...
Chamberlain had what he considered a golden opportunity to guarantee world peace. History recorded him as a well-intentioned but unrealistic pacifist. President Reagan had a similar opportunity in Iceland early this week. But the President rightly refused to submit to the allure of world fame if it meant sacrificing the security of this country for the sake of a premature and uncontemplated shift in the world's balance of power...
...hymnal for the United Methodist Church voted to delete the lines from the volume. Native Americans, they feared, might take offense at a verse extolling the white man's exploits in the wilderness. And the Battle Hymn, they contended, is too militaristic to fit the church's current pacifist stance. Banished for the same reason was the perennial Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...former pacifist and conscientious objector who staunchly supports America's military buildup. He is a lifelong Democrat who advised Walter Mondale on foreign policy but who today works for Ronald Reagan. By his own estimation, Max Kampelman, 65, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Geneva arms- control talks, is an idealistic realist who entertains no illusions about the Soviet Union. As the fifth round of the current negotiations continued last week, Kampelman called the U.S.S.R. "probably the most deadly and most serious adversary" the U.S. has ever known...