Word: professed
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Civics Lesson. In large part, Nixon's speech was a reasoned defense against those who profess to see something unwholesome in the American system. "The structure of our laws has rested from the beginning on a foundation of moral purpose," he told the new moralists. The President also taught a fundamental civics lesson: "The right to participate in public decisions carries with it the duty to abide by those decisions when reached, recognizing that no one can have his own way all the time." What he failed to emphasize was that the realities of economic and political power sometimes...
...Belief. The fedayeen themselves seem undaunted by their high casualties; 50% losses in dead, wounded and captured are not uncommon, and since the beginning of the year, some 200 guerrillas have been killed. They also profess to be unconcerned by the apparent futility of many of their attacks, the intramural rivalries among commando groups, and signs of mounting conflict with other Arabs. They still have money -from Arab governments and private contributions-and enough recruits, and they seem determined to fight on regardless of consequences. As one of Al-Fatah's leaders said last week, "We are now living...
April 6: Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. '27, the Chief Judge of the Federal District Court in Boston, ruled that non-religious conscientious objectors are entitled to the same exemption from military service as CO's who profess a faith in God. Wyzanski's unprecedented ruling came in the case of John H. Sisson '67, who had refused military induction as a non-religious conscientious objector...
...experts, notably Hanoi Watcher Douglas Pike, profess to detect differences in the Hanoi leadership about how best to proceed with the war in the South. The dominant group, of which Ho and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap are members, is made up of hard-liners who brush aside domestic considerations. They hold that the war can be won by pressing on with the present strategy of employing both conventional and guerrilla forces in the South. A second group led by Politburo Member Truong Chinh, so the analysis goes, favors a return to guerrilla warfare in the South in an effort...
...movement at Harvard is fundamentally irrational in any case because the existence of the ROTC has no direct bearing on American policy in Vietnam or elsewhere. This movement has no intellectual or moral respectability except in a context of genuine pacifism, which is a philosophy which few student demonstrators profess and which many of them betray by their actions. The anti-ROTC movement is mainly an expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex issues...