Word: argument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument that the real conflict is between religion and humanism is especially true. It's too bad the trend now is to judge by human standards instead of God's. People are prone to set standards for themselves that are too often influenced by greed, dishonesty, selfishness, etc., whereas God's standards are not affected by any of these vices...
...Catholic hierarchy has not incurred the wrath of the secular humanists merely over the argument of whether moral law is relative or absolute. The underlying cause of the bitterness is the church's insistence on calling those who do not agree with it evil and immoral...
...arms to Morocco. The State Department had argued against the sale, contending that if Morocco's King Hassan II got American weapons, his opponents, the Polisario guerrillas, might solicit more help from the Soviet Union, posing the threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan...
According to the official account, a fierce argument erupted between the intelligence chief and Cha. Kim, a relative moderate, made a last-minute plea to Park to ease his harsh treatment of unruly dissidents. Cha chided Kim for his softness. At about 6:50 p.m., said a high government investigator, Kim left the dining room to meet two co-conspirators and told them, "I will finish them off tonight, so when you hear the gunshots inside, finish off the presidential bodyguard outside...
Jones does not win every argument, of course. Indeed, he still bears the scars of the fight over the B-l supersonic bomber. Carter canceled that project in June 1977, when ex-Bomber Pilot Jones was Air Force Chief of Staff and the plane's leading advocate. Carter's surprise decision shook the Air Force. Its generals immediately began talking of mounting a campaign in Congress to save the bomber and they looked to Jones to lead the attack. Jones concluded instead that such a campaign would have almost no chance of succeeding. "That was an agonizing decision...