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While the students had the right to test their constitutional safeguard of free expression, they were wrong to use it. The kind of reasoning that accepts pornography for want of money, because people want to see it, because we have the legal right to--only contributes to the increasing violence against women in America today. This reasoning abdicates personal responsibility--the moral imperative that is the most reasonable restraint on the first amendment...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Abdicating Responsibility | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

...less to do with American congressional investigations into CIA abuses than it did with the Shah of Iran's insistence that the CIA not involve itself with opposition political groups, and that all "intelligence operations" be conducted through Iran's own SAVAK--an obvious attempt by the Shah to safeguard against any shift in CIA support to the opposition were it to appear at any point that the Shah himself had become "expendable...

Author: By George E. Bisharat, | Title: Intelligence or Intelligent Policy? | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...object would not be to safeguard Pakistan against an all-out Soviet attack. As Defense Secretary Harold Brown put it last week, that is "not something the Pakistanis themselves would be able to cope with no matter how much equipment they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Should the West Arm Pakistan? | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...said he refuses to negotiate with the Quebec government, which is seeking a mandate from Quebecois to negotiate political independence, and regrets that Quebec sees independence as the sole means to safeguard its unique French culture...

Author: By Michael G. Harpe, | Title: Ontario Premier Says Canada Shares U.S. Outrage Over Iran | 2/8/1980 | See Source »

...quick response came from neighboring China. Making the most of a previously scheduled visit, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua toured Afghan refugee camps and emphasized Peking's three-fold commitment: to support the insurgency, to aid the 440,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, most important, to "safeguard Pakistan's national independence and security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: We must fight to the death | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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