Word: rigidities
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Without American support, the Cambodian civil war would have ended by now. Any American aid the Congress approves will only go to maintaining an unpopular, corrupt regime and forcing an inevitable loss of life. In fact, it is precisely the rigid and self-serving nature of the American policy which is responsible for the "bloodbath" now in progress in Phnom Penh. To be sure, the Khmer Rouge shelling of civilian sections of Phnom Penh is a reprehensible act, but the prospect of a "bloodbath" in Phnom Penh is more likely if Congress approves more aid than if not. The Khmer...
...will involve concessions by both sides; but they fear that the concessions made by Jerusalem will be more important than those made by Cairo. They well know that all this follows a Kissinger campaign in which he seriously warned the Israelis (and the U.S. Jewish community) against being too rigid. Above all, it is plain that the next step down the road will be far more hazardous. The Geneva Conference is likely to be reconvened, and it will almost certainly raise the issues of the Golan Heights, the Palestinians, the West Bank, Jerusalem?on none of which the Israelis...
...shocks multiplied. There was Captain Henry Williams, tactical commander of the state police at Attica, whose "narrow black tie had an air about it of woe to the hippies." There was the initial police response to the observers' committee--rigid indifference--as if they were only a formality to be gotten through, one more time-consuming nicety, like warning an arrested man of his rights, before the inevitable business at hand could be attended to by armed and empowered patriots. The indifference quickly turned to hostility, as the observers kept trying to avoid violence and began to sympathize with...
...shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Keith blundered away his own chance for party leadership by delivering some ill-considered public remarks last fall about what he called the irresponsible breeding habits of Britain's lower classes (TIME, Nov. 11). More than Mrs. Thatcher, Sir Keith is a rigid monetarist and an outspoken critic of the welfare state, a position that the Labor Party has used to picture him as a defender of mass unemployment and social misery...
Merely being able to look back over her shoulder brings great satisfaction to Debra Tietz, 19, a beautician in Cottage Grove, Minn. For nearly seven years, she could not bend her neck or back: her torso was held rigid from the chin to the pelvis by a cumbersome steel and leather brace. Debra was the victim of scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine. The brace, which she was finally able to discard last year, not only straightened her back but may well have saved her life...