Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement that the situation in Cambodia is "the deadly logical consequence of an atheistic" system of values suggests that theistic value systems have never allowed or encouraged such atrocities. One need only cite the brutalities committed in the name of God, from the Inquisition to the "Kill a Commie for Christ" mentality, to demonstrate that intolerance, bigotry and cruelties of all kinds have been and continue to be more common to "religiously oriented" societies than to the few genuinely secular ones...
Some of those 29 million people who have given up cigarettes clutched momentarily at the hint that smoking might be safe after all and their valiant struggle was unnecessary. The Tobacco Institute, lobby for the industry, declared, "We could not have written it [Carter's statement] better than that." And almost as if on cue, Gio Batta Gori, a high official of the Government-financed National Cancer Institute, announced a short-term study showing that some of the new cigarettes were so low in toxins that they could be smoked in "tolerable" numbers without appreciable bad effects on average...
...statement following the House's action, Carter praised the "bipartisan, statesman-like recognition that the time has come to turn a new page in our relations with the countries of the eastern Mediterranean... [It] is a crucial step toward strengthening the vital southern flank of NATO." Washington expects that the Turks will reciprocate soon by allowing the U.S. to resume electronic monitoring of Soviet military activity from Turkish bases, which the Turks closed down three years...
...statement is drafted in Geneva but based on extensive guidance from the White House. "Basic instructions," those containing a new proposal, for example, are approved by the President himself; "amplifying instructions" are cleared by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Soviet statement is translated into English by the U.S. delegation's team of five resident interpreters and flashed back to Washington over the State Department's own coded communications network...
...once, Costanza, 45, was reticent. She sent Carter a letter of resignation, issued a valedictory statement claiming that "no one asked me to go" and then slipped away to a Florida hideaway...