Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FIRST, SASC tends to overstate its case for divestment. Although the Botha regime is a target ripe for caricature, SASC's frequent comparisons between South Africa and Nazi Germany are ridiculous. Until South Africa begins to round up entire Black families and villages and cart them off to gas chambers and ovens--and gets the crazy idea of trying to do the same in the rest of the world--such analogies are absurd and can only confuse those not yet among the ranks of the committed...
That also may very well be true; the ability of the press to cover the turmnoil in South Africa and the ease with which Americans can identify with the racial dilemna there makes the apartheid regime easy to target. But if the reasoning behind choosing South Africa to take a symbolic stand against illiberal regimes worldwide is its convenience as a target for humanitarian outrage, than clearly divestment from South Africa itself is not the clear, specific moral imperative divestment activists make...
...summit started with a bang. During a series of welcoming ceremonies for the leaders (from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) at Akasaka Palace, five homemade missiles fired from crude tubes in an apartment window nearby sailed over their target and fell harmlessly to earth. The summiteers were hardly fazed. When asked if he was disturbed by the rockets, Reagan quipped, "No, they missed...
...seemed distinctly ill at ease. Puffing on Marlboros, his eyes darting nervously between camera and interviewer, he vowed to launch terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad. That was not all; he labeled Ronald Reagan "enemy No. 1," implying that the President of the U.S. is a prime target for assassination...
During the past year Mikhail Gorbachev has attempted to build an image of a new style of Moscow ruler--responsible, candid and sophisticated. Yet today's Soviet leadership looked very much like those of the past. Soviet credibility in Western Europe, which had been a target of much of the new diplomatic offensive, has been particularly damaged. Gorbachev's goal of taking up the mantle of the recognized champion of a nuclear-free world has certainly been set back. Last Tuesday, when a Soviet diplomat was trying to elicit West German help with the accident cleanup while providing as little...