Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human rights abuses perpetrated by the right-wing regime we support in El Salvador. Even after the arrest of a U.S. church worker in San Salvador earlier this week, the administration unswervingly insists that the battle against communism in El Salvador has priority over the well-being of pacifist American citizens in the region...
...covert action or to attempts on heads of state. It simply forbids "assassination." What is assassination? If the word just means killing someone, anyone, for political reasons, then it effectively bans the use of -- or even conspiracy to use -- lethal force. That would make America the first pacifist superpower. The whole Pentagon should be arrested...
Despite India's pacifist roots in the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Indians crying "Ban the bomb!" are a minority. "If you are living in a world of nuclear powers, then you must have it ((the bomb))," says Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam, leader of the pronuke lobby...
...fueled the whispers. It is hardly surprising that Gorbachev's determination to beef up the civilian economy by paring military spending, including troop reductions and a cut in arms production by 19.5%, has rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...
...whose body count is one rape reported every six minutes in the U.S. and one rape in four involving multiple attackers? Finally, are those who watch a rape and do nothing guilty of abetting the crime? In today's battle of the sexes, can any bystander declare himself a pacifist...