Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...
...gingerly defended his colleagues against attacks from the press as well as from the Democrats. Unlike the Administration, the press undergoes no such persistent, informed scrutiny from the outside. That is all the more reason for those in the press to consider themselves to be not white knights beyond reproach but vulnerable members of the human race...
...prepublication review, the government's plan to test the integrity of millions of Americans with lie detectors sharply contradicts our deeply hold belief that individuals remain innocent until proven guilty. Under the Administration's plan, individuals must prove to the satisfaction of the government that their loyalty is beyond reproach. This heavy-handed approach--common in totalitarian regimes--warrants public outrage in a free, democratic nation. Adoption of the directive would create a dangerous precedent, perhaps a harbinger of even greater violations of personal freedom...
...they left their ancestors and fellow survivors with a nightmarish and burdensome legacy--guilt. However irrational the assumption, many Jews who emerged from the death camps cannot help wondering just how they managed to survive. The unfortunate result is a generation of survivors so immersed in self-reproach and misery that they torture themselves and their loved ones...
...admitted freely its burden of guilt, a courageous and unique historical event. Despite the lengthy list of Arab violations of human rights, of massacres against their own people, of the uprooting of their own citizens as well as Israelis, we have yet to hear one word of self-reproach. Is this how Mr. Bisharat understands justice? Rona G. Shapiro '83-3 Chair, H-R Zionist Alliance