Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberal criticism, if less strident and more focused than that of the majority opinion, can help temper U.S. conduct in El Salvador. Critics must insure that El Salvador remains a non-military political problem and the solution primarily a political-economic one. Specifically they can help insure that we use our support of centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte to pressure him to halt the excesses of the far right, plan for free elections, and go ahead with far-reaching land reforms...
...still to be the only solution." Apparently his words fell on deaf ears, for only three weeks later he was at it again, this time his rage triggered by a letter from a doctor who said college men should keep their feet dry or risk illness. In a poetic temper, he wrote. "The Crimson has alluded before to the specific instance of the walk between the Library and the Union, which--with other paths--one might suppose in their present condition to be licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary...
...casting the United States military establishment as a laboratory of social change, we might simply turn the page. But there was more. While the editors made a strong and important case for a draft without exemptions for the rich and the connected, they concluded that a draft would "temper our conduct in the world." This was certainly not the message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national...
Odell said that the administation had to temper its conservative policies occasionally to deal with the real world, as it did by refusing Taiwan the F-5 fighter planes, but he said the administration's plans had not changed or become more moderate. Although Reagan did not give the Taiwanese what they wanted, he continued to oppose Peking and support Taiwan, Odell added...
...draft; that we would be sending dangerous signals to the rest of the world by imposing conscription at this time. We bitterly oppose the militaristic overtones of our nation's foreign policy, which is one reason we want a draft, anticipating, as we have said, that it will temper our conduct in the world. And whatever other signals it sends, a no-exemptions draft will make clear to the rest of the world that this is one country where the sons and daughters of the privileged class help with the nation's most basic chores...