Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of angst felt more keenly than in West Germany. Last week, as the Bundestag met for a two-day debate on the new threat to West Germany's security, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger expressed his people's anxiety in careful, guarded terms. "The events in Czechoslovakia compel us to exercise a high degree of vigilance," he said. "While the nuclear balance has diminished the threat of an all-out nu clear war, it also made a conventional attack by a potential enemy no longer seem impossible...
...Palacky that "The Hussite War is the first war in history that was fought not for material interests but for intellectual ones - for ideals" is mistaken - by 16 centuries. In the second century B.C., the Syrian king, Antiochus IV, sought to hellenize forcibly the Jews of Palestine and to compel them to surrender their way of life. In the year 168 B.C., the Maccabees launched a revolt against their Syrian overlords, the purpose of which was the preservation of and the right to practice one's faith. Had the Maccabees not fought this war for liberty of the spirit...
...Church's official position is that the "government should not have the power to compel any citizen to submit to unnecessary treatment which violates. . .his day-by-day control and responsibility for the care of his body...
...Student Bar Association of Howard's law school is also seeking an injunction: this one against the university officials to compel them to reopen the school...
...Johnson Administration, of course, is unwilling even to consult dovish Senators before it makes decisions on the war. Last week Fulbright had to threaten a delay of the foreign aid authorization to compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...