Word: evenhandedness
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The trouble began brewing in March with the announcement that William Bundy, 54, a former Kennedy and Johnson official who was a key figure in the escalation of the Viet Nam War, had been named to replace Hamilton Fish Armstrong as editor of Foreign Affairs. Under Armstrong's evenhanded...
In the domestic area, Brezhnev pointedly praised the KGB (secret police) and called for greater vigilance against "bourgeois influences." He derided intellectuals who distort Soviet reality. All they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have...
Gillette and Negre claimed, among other things, that the draft law violates the First Amendment ban against governmental "establishment of religion." It does so, they said, by favoring denominations that preach total pacifism while penalizing others that oppose only unjust wars. Speaking for the court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted...
Nixon's reply, made through Assistant Secretary of State Martin Hillenbrand, demonstrated that he too understands the best uses of propaganda. In a shrewd and unprecedented gesture, he simply invited the 14 Russians to attend the trial to satisfy themselves that Miss Davis "will receive the same evenhanded treatment...
Though the U.S. helped open the country to trade in the 19th century and eventually occupied it after a grueling 20th century war, the land of the Rising Sun until lately has largely been terra incognita to Americans. Now historical revisionism, the astounding economic resurgence of the Japanese, and concern...