Word: proclaimed
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Politics is, and must be, deceptive. Even though George Bush may think of his grandchildren as "the little brown ones," it's not necessary to proclaim that loudly to the President and the rest of the American public. Tact, which is merely a milder form of lying, is essential in politics, and it's time Bush learned that lesson...
Arafat hinted at two possible courses of action for his organization: proclaim a Palestinian state in the Israeli-held Arab territories, or advocate a U.N.-backed mandate in them after Israeli withdrawal. But a final decision, he said, must await the forthcoming meeting of the 451-member Palestine National Council, for which no date has yet been announced...
Finally, if emerging reports that Quayle's wealthy family may have helped to get him out of the Vietnam War are proven true, Quayle will soon be off the ticket, and for good reason. After all, it's awfully easy to proclaim your support for an aggressive, intervientionist foreign policy when your Dad helped buy your way out of military service...
Actually, most advocates of legalization would ban drug advertising. But opponents argue vehemently that the very fact of legalization would constitute a powerful form of advertising. However loudly Washington might proclaim that it was not condoning narcotics abuse, the message that would come through on the streets would be "the Government says it's O.K.," and that message would overpower any stepped-up educational efforts about the dangers of drugs. One peculiar aspect of modern American society is that little distinction is made between what is legal and what is socially condoned...
...Philby a shot at the top job in the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, and could have cost him a good deal more. Yet despite two secret trials and a 1955 accusation on the floor of Parliament -- an incident that ironically led Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan to proclaim him cleared of disloyalty -- Philby was allowed to go on working for MI6. Until he defected, he free- lanced for the service, which also helped him find employment as a journalist. In an interview last January with British Journalist Phillip Knightley, Philby claimed that his departure was engineered by Britain...