Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Course. Still, there are some valid reasons for the President to set out now on a hegira through the Middle East, the first state tour of the Arab nations by any American President. Addressing graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, Nixon noted that the October war of last year made it "clear to us and clear to the moderate leadership of the Arab world that a positive American role was indispensable to achieving a permanent settlement in the Middle East." Referring to Kissinger's successful efforts in breaking the Israeli stalemate with Egypt and Syria, Nixon...
...returns also provide a wealth of apparently valid financial information...
...privilege -based on the theory that he can only get candid advice from aides if he keeps their conversations with him confidential-is at the core of his defense. Obviously, if the Supreme Court rules that Nixon's claim of Executive privilege to protect his tapes is not valid in the criminal case of his former associates, it would have no validity at all in the transcending circumstances of impeachment...
However, political seriousness is not moral justification by itself any more than vague psychologizing about the SLA provides a valid basis for ignoring all moral discussion. The important lesson of the SLA is not how much evil can be accomplished by politically naive madmen, but how much harm can be done by rational, politically serious people who fail to comprehend their moral and political responsibilities or to live up to their announced ideals...
While the editorial "Unending Terror" appearing in this left-hand column is substantially valid, it is objectionable to present the Palestinian raid on Maalot and the Israeli bombing of Lebanon as parallel acts of terrorism without distinguishing between them. The Israeli action was wrong both morally and tactically, but it was directed at preventing future massacres of Israeli civilians, and its stated goal was to strike at terrorist bases and not at civilians. Though this does not justify the air raids, it differentiates them from the Palestinian attack, the clear thrust of which was at civilians--in this case, mostly...