Word: sanctioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greek lobby. "We prefer to think of ourselves as the rule-of-law lobby," says Brademas, whose 475,000 constituents include only about 450 Greek Americans. Explains Sarbanes: "We have simply sought to enforce a provision of the existing law. We do not feel the U.S. should sanction aggression...
There is a further mystery as well. It would scarcely have been in character for Dulles to proceed in such a delicate, potentially notorious enterprise without Eisenhower's sanction or at least the authorization of the National Security Council. But there is no record of such authority...
...EIGER SANCTION, by contrast, is straightforward stuff, featuring Clint Eastwood pulling some derring-do on the side of one of Switzerland's highest mountains...
...lesser charge of refusing to testify. Then Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. gave him a one-month suspended sentence because his offense "reflects a heart too loyal" to the President. Next the bar in his home state of Arizona voted merely to censure him, the mildest possible sanction. And a panel of three Washington, D.C., federal judges found no grounds for suspending him from practice in their courts. Said one Washington lawyer: "The legal profession in general had decided to give Kleindienst a 'pass...
...while understanding how precarious an effort it is to avoid sanctimoniousness and racism. Americans should reject the view that these 130,000 refugees form a monolithic bloc of people each with an equal right to political asylum. Some should be denied the security and moral sanction of asylum--secret police who staffed the South Vietnamese torture establishment, guarded the tiger cages and carried out the Phoenix program of assassinations. America has no responsibility to provide a safe haven for these people, and we are in no position ourselves to undertake to rehabilitate them...