Word: denials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the Vice President's offer to broker a negotiated solution to the impasse. The deal: Aquino would be replaced by a rebel junta, presumably including Laurel himself. The U.S. declined the offer. Late last week Laurel denied he had made such a request and demanded a denial from Platt as well. The embassy replied that during the coup attempt there was no "communication" between Laurel and the Ambassador...
FIRST, the denial. One reader prefaced his reference to daily human rights abuses in the occupied territories with the word "allegedly." Another explicitly disputed the routine nature of such abuses...
...themselves. Since the intifada began just over two years ago, almost 600 Palestinians have been killed, about 2000 imprisoned without trial and 58 deported in violation of international law. Divide those figures by the number of days and you see just how routine Israeli human rights abuses really are. Denial is not a good option for the Zealots...
...other five letters are about the Quarterly's denial of "equal time" to the right-to-life side of the abortion rights debate. While equal time is a neat idea for television media that are legally bound to observe a pretense of objective journalism, the Quarterly, happily, has no such obligations. Contrary to the claims of the letter-writers, the Quarterly has in the past featured articles by anti-choice activists. It is thrilling, now, however, to see the Quarterly take a feminist stand in the face of protest from some of its readers...
...crop yields 85%. The U.N. estimates that 4 million people are in danger of starving and will need emergency food aid. An international relief effort is at work, but in the civil war between the rigidly Marxist government of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government-controlled ports. But that could get the agencies banned from vital operations in government areas...