Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...same time, school board members and other civic and community leaders should realize that implementing an unwise plan simply because it is at hand could be devastating not only to the city's reaction to racial balance but also to the attempts of the schools to provide sound education. Those who question the redistricting plan must share their concerns at the public hearing scheduled for later this month; the school committee must also decide whether it thinks the proposal is the best method of both educating and desegregating pupils...
Muskie is appalled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "The Soviet Union [must] know and understand that we must resist and object in the strongest terms to their policy of intervention." But he adds that "we have to have constant communications, action and reaction, until both sides have a clear perception of how the other side stands. I don't think it means you have to go around saber rattling or missile rattling. It's to our mutual interest to reach an agreement on nuclear arms and to find a way to live on this planet together." Muskie...
...Force Colonel James Kyle, and asked him to take a look at the ailing chopper. "Let's confirm this," Beckwith said. "I want to make sure." When Kyle climbed down from the critical craft to report that it was indeed useless, Beckwith said last week, his own reaction was immediate: "Sir, my recommendation is that we abort." The commander gave Beckwith a chance to change his mind, asking "Would you consider taking five and going ahead? Think about it before you answer me. You're the guy that's got to shoulder this." After only...
...irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a reaction to 25 years of oppressive plunder," whereas the London incident was "a terrorist act" perpetrated by "a few mercenaries who are being employed by another government." Whom was he talking about? Tehran's favorite enemies, the U.S. and Iraq, who were now working "hand in hand against Iran...
...reaction of the Tehran government was an object lesson in the negligible value it places on the lives of its own people. President Banisadr announced that he was prepared to allow the hostages in London to be killed rather than accept the demands of the terrorists. Said he: "We are ready to accept the martyrdom of our children in England, but we will not give in to blackmail...