Word: recantation
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...standstill ceasefire. In the 113 days that elapsed before Mrs. Meir announced that her government was ready to resume negotiations, Israel tried to get the U.S., its principal ally, to agree: 1) to institute a long-range program of military aid and economic assistance; and 2) to recant on Secretary of State Rogers' policy that Israel must return to its Arab neighbors all but "insubstantial" pieces of territory captured during the Six-Day War of 1967. The U.S. agreed to provide $500 million in aid, principally jet fighters, electronic equipment and tanks, but refused to change its stand...
...hospitalized with a serious heart ailment. There was another reason for his recall. Dubček was spotted as he slipped into the party's massive brownstone quarters overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. He was reportedly subjected to grilling by a purge commission, and asked to recant his role in the 1968 reforms. He refused. Then he was asked to resign from the party. Again he refused. For Dubček, who remains a loyal Communist, the ordeal was punishing. Last week he was said to be under heavy guard in Prague's Sanops Clinic, undergoing treatment...
...enthusiastic supporter of Alexander Dubček and his liberal reforms of 1968, Zátopek has refused to recant. After the Soviet invasion, the lanky athlete repeatedly reaffirmed his loyalty to Dubček. Before long, he was expelled from the Czechoslovak army (in which he had the rank of colonel), pushed out of his job as an athletic trainer and thrown out of the Communist Party. To support himself and his wife, Zátopek got a position as a well tester on a surveying team. When he was fired from that, too, Zátopek took...
...many respects, the presentation was a defense of his earlier tirades. "A little over a week ago," Agnew told the party faithful, "I took a rather unusual step for a Vice President. I said something." And again: "I have no regrets. I do not intend to repudiate my beliefs, recant my words, or run and hide...
...Catholic Mass is derived from the Old and New Testaments. Catholics, on the other hand, may gain a new respect for the earnest Biblical faith of Protestant heroes. Acts 5:29 ("We must obey God rather than men"), the commentary notes, inspired Martin Luther's famous refusal to recant-"to go against conscience is neither right nor safe"-as well as the defiance of Nazism by Germany's Confessing Church. Some examples of heroism are poignant: Quaker John Woolman, dying of smallpox, told his friends to "rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks." Then he added, "This...