Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously the effects of the United States presence in Puerto Rico have not been all bad, and it would be unjust to ignore the growth and diversification of the economy and the improvements in literacy and health care which have taken place in the past years-although these have not helped all segments of society equally. Many people-and perhaps a majority of Puerto Ricans-suggest statehood as a solution for the island's ills. As a state, Puerto Rico would gain true representation in Congress and increased control over its own affairs...
...Jewish leaders have rejected the council decision as inadequate. "It's been a disgrace to the institution that they've been so petty and unjust," Jay R. Rothstein '71, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday. "Harvard University expects its Jewish students to desecrate their sabbath," Rabbi BenZion Gold, University Jewish chaplain, charged last night...
...stood at one or the other of two extremes: "strict, cruel and unjust or weak, vacillating, ineffective or absent altogether." The son grows up hating the father, and learning to take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...
Following the invasion of Cambodia last spring students demonstrated against Harvard's involvement in the war, Harvard's unjust employment practices, and the use of the CRR against students opposing the war and racism. Harvard pressed trespass charges against Cheney and three others who participated in these demonstrations on the ground that they were present on Harvard property...
...reasonably coherent estimate of what should be done began to be possible, many of those who had come up through the disappointment of the movement in its infancy had begun saying that no social change was possible, that the entire nation must perish at once rather than continue its unjust rule of much of the globe and its murder of the Vietnamese people...