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...most profound quarrel many Westerners have with the Soviets is that their totalitarian system represses the individual. But Gorbachev stressed the Soviet goal of creating a "world community of states based on the rule of law." Sounding more like Jefferson than Lenin, he spoke of "ensuring the rights of the individual," guaranteeing "freedom of conscience" and forbidding persecution based on "political or religious beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gorbachev Challenge | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said, "Hopefully they would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal medical procedure, life and conception would not even begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Says He Reflects Voters' Hopes | 11/3/1988 | See Source »

Friends do not always agree, but last week's quarrel between the U.S. and Israel was definitely out of the ordinary. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead summoned the Israeli charge d'affaires in Washington to protest Israel's plans to deport 25 more Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The State Department publicly expressed "shock" and privately warned Israel that "damage to our bilateral relations will occur" if the deportations go ahead. That apparently means that the U.S. will not defend Israel if the expulsions are condemned in the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Giving Them The Boot | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Just what are the Republicans accusing the Democrats of in this term liberal? Of Social Security? Of Medicare? Of farm price supports? Of civil rights? Of programs to clean up the environment? Of friendly relations with the Soviets? It's precisely because George Bush has no quarrel with the essence of the liberal agenda that he's basing his campaign on obscure irrelevancies such as prison-furlough policy and an ancient controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hypocrisy and the L Word | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...they deemed to be lewd books, as well as pictures, lutes, playing cards, mirrors and other vanities, and piled them in the great Piazza della Signoria of Florence. The pyramid of offending objects rose 60 feet high, and went up in flames. One year later Savonarola had a political quarrel with Pope Alexander VI, was excommunicated, tried and hanged. His body was burned at the stake. Savonarola went up in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Holocaust of Words | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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