Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the West German Parliament has said that "God's mercy also extends to the buried SS soldiers." God's mercy, perhaps, but not America's tribute Only God and the victims can give the Nazi butchers their ultimate forgiveness. The President offers German consciences a flawed pardon at the expense of historical understandings; this is an unacceptable tradeoff. By his words and planned visit. President Reagan has blurred the distinction between the murderers and their victims--a disservice to the past and future...
...support, divestiture only from South Africa for three reasons, two of which appear a bit shaky. First and foremost-and most compelling are the matter's moral dimensions. The issue seems (pardon the expression) black and white. Even a neoconservative can see that apartheid is bad and therefore, divestiture is good...
Fill the president with mercy for those less fortunate--perhaps a pardon for John Zaccaro, and the citizens of Minnesota and the District of Columbia...
...tour for her new book, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. "She has excruciatingly correct manners," says Lesh, "but once, when we were in a store and a clerk mumbled, Martin responded with a 'What?' Later I asked 'Shouldn't you have said, Pardon me?' " No way, said Martin. "What" was correct. "To pardon" is to excuse an offense...
...analysis these days suggests, however, that other forces were at work that would have surfaced with or without the great electronic spectacles. There was an unease over Nixon, and affection for Kennedy was on the rise. Ford was saddled with the collapse of Viet Nam and Nixon's pardon, a burden now viewed as too much for any Republican just then. For months Carter had been his own worst enemy and hardly needed Reagan on the stage to remind Americans why they were disillusioned...