Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vienna, where Carter will confront Brezhnev face to face for the first time. Schmidt has met the Soviet leader twice, most recently in May 1978. Carter wants to elicit every tip he can: how to judge Brezhnev's moods, how to broach touchy subjects, and most of all, how to deal with his shaky, if not sinking, health...
...dedication ceremony also displayed the callous disregard of opposing viewpoints to which many members of the University community have become accustomed of late. President Bok, in his refusal to address or even recognize the existence of the peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say--including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed--reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp...
...series of Cambridge-Harvard clashes. "Since then they've been quiet, doing nothing to ameliorate or exacerbate the situation," Preusser said. "I don't think they're out to shock us anymore," Sullivan added. "Every time they act contrary to the interests of Cambridge, we stand ready to confront them. The city has a great deal of police power. We have the right to take them to court anytime," he added...
...Saikewicz decision was a good one. "I think this was necessary in an historical sense," Stone says. "Doctors were not aware of the moral and ethical issues involved," in making the decision whether or not to withhold treatment. Stone feels that the Saikewicz case forced doctors and nurses to confront these issues...
...words of Justice Bazelon's Court of Appeals opinion in the same case, though reversed by the Supreme Court, now resonate with a special prescience: "To the extent that uncertainties necessarily underlie predictions of this importance on the frontiers of science and technology, there is a concomitant necessity to confront and explore fully the depth of such uncertainties." The Supreme Court thought otherwise and gagged the public...