Word: counter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporter of self-determination for Black South Africans, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, I find these ties, which include nuclear weapons cooperation and Israeli aid in maintaining apartheid, e.g., by giving South Africa counter-insurgency aid, repugnant. Rather than attack the messenger, Israel's friends, such as Fein, ought to heed the message. At the least, they ought to support the right of conferences, whether pro- or anti-Israeli policy, to be held at universities. Free speech is free speech, and we cannot allow the exclusion of meetings because they "would have obscured real debate." Edmund R. Hanauer Executive Director...
Nonetheless, Administration officials confide that so far as they are aware, Bush is doing only tactical planning, concentrating on getting through the summit without a major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What...
...question of liability, but of safety, are they implying that we, the parents, are not at least as concerned about the safety of our children as they? If safety is the issue, and not the exclusion of children/strollers, why can they not accept one of our many counter-proposals...
Soviet buildups would then cause pressure for American counter buildups, which would further destabilize the situation. At some point one side will decide that the best defensive strategy in Central Europe is offensive, and the fuse to World War III will have been...
...Harvard community now has an opportunity to counter this apathy and stagnation by supporting campus efforts to recycle paper...