Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanton and brutal murder of unarmed white civilian women and children in Zaïre [May 29] should give all the liberal do-gooders, who are blindly supporting the black terrorists and advocating black majority rule for South Africa and Rhodesia, cause for concern...
...Editors: Your assertion in "Israel Severs the Arm" [March 27] that "as might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation" is outrageous. What would you recommend as an appropriate response to the wanton murder of innocent babies, children and adults by terrorists who brazenly claim credit and then hide behind a national boundary and prepare to strike again? The Israeli response was restrained...
...more important than whether West Germany and Japan expand their economies is whether the U.S. can manage to curtail its wanton consumption of imported oil. As President Carter grimly noted last spring in his energy address to the nation, if present trends continue, the country's oil deficit by 1985 will total a mind-stretching $550 billion. With the world monetary system already buckling under the weight of the nation's existing oil deficit, it is not hard to envision the disruptions that will follow from a more than tenfold increase in the burden during the next seven...
Even if these scenes didn't wrench us out of the normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...
...Japan, over what to do about the soaring U.S. trade deficit. By year's end the deficit is expected to total a stunning $27 bil lion, nearly five times last year's figure. Both Japan and West Germany maintain that the deficit is the result of wanton U.S. consumption of imported oil and that Washington must adopt an energy program that reduces U.S. de pendence on OPEC. The Carter Administration argues that it is doing all it can to get the President's energy package through Congress. In its view, Japan and West Germany are foolishly helping...