Word: sentiments
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...said his job is to not to befriend teachers, a sentiment shared by Massachusetts Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan...
...least some of its own forces in East Timor. The New York Times reports that General Prabowo Subianto, a close ally of the former dictator Suharto and a rival to current military leader General Wiranto, wields considerable influence among officers on the island. That, together with rising nationalist sentiment against international intervention and the Indonesian government that authorized it - as well as the specter of war crimes tribunals shadowing those officers who helped organize the militias' killing spree ? could leave the peacekeeping force marching straight into a shooting...
Doctors and medical associations are disturbed by the antivaccine sentiment in some communities. They fear that it could erode public confidence in the nation's largely successful vaccination policies and lead to outbreaks of many infectious diseases now held in check by inoculations...
...Sentimentally, of course, Western leaders would like nothing more than to act decisively to end the pogrom in East Timor ? but sentiment seldom trumps geopolitics in the affairs of state, and geopolitics is a cynical business. Back in December 1975, the U.S. gave Indonesia a nod and a wink to proceed with its invasion of the tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about...
...learned from my mistakes." Period. It was time, he said, for someone to put an end to the politics of personal destruction, and in the context of the past year, when America completed its excruciating graduate seminar in truth, character and privacy, he had history and public sentiment on his side. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 84% of those surveyed didn't think youthful cocaine use should disqualify him from being President...