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...present crisis, the U.S. could play an equally important role in restoring some sort of constitutional government to Greece. Even to maintain neutrality towards the military coup would be tantamount to support of the dictatorship. It would be more in the long-range interest of the U.S. to refuse recognition to the current regime...
...benefit we may have had from being outside before has been lost because of the freeze-up: It's tantamount to starting all over again," says Parker...
Sherburne decided that his good friend Wood, who was in charge of NSA fund-raising, should know about the ties so he could begin searching for new sources of money. Unless money could be found, independence was tantamount to bankruptcy...
Simon, Cousteau and Pereira all were pleased with the finished stories, which we hope is the case most of the time. But it is not always. "It was tantamount to a mountain laboring to bring forth a mouse," thundered Boston's Cardinal Gushing after he read our cover on him. Said Producer David Merrick, who will say anything: "Is it true the entire staff of TIME...
...likelier than before. It is precisely in such limited conflicts that the old just-war principles seem pertinent again. Some churchmen deny this. Says the Rev. Paul Oestreicher of the British Council of Churches: "If the technical criteria of the just war are taken at face value, this is tantamount to pacifism, because no modern war conceivably measures up to them." Nevertheless, most of the moral objections advanced against the Viet Nam war are generally put in terms of the just-war principles, and they move quickly from moral abstraction to practical questions. Among the chief arguments: > Aggression or Civil...