speech and respect - College of Social Sciences and International ...

Notes
Angeles Times A32 (July 3,1992); New York Times A7 (July 3,1992). The
Tailhook chairman subsequently wrote the Acting Navy Secretary: "We
apologize to the women involved, the Navy and the nation for our part in
what has become a source of embarrassment." Los Angeles Times A26
(August 8, 1992).
When Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady said to an informal breakfast
meeting of reporters "We have been told our workers . . . can't
compete with the Japs. . . " Reps. Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif)and Norman
Y. Mineta (D-Calif), both of whom had been interned during World War
II, called for his resignation. Matsui said: "It really demonstrates the kind
of insularity of this Administration ..." The Japanese Embassy also
complained. Brady responded: "At no time did I intend to offend anyone.
If I did, I apologize." New York Times s.1 p. 16 (August 2, 1992).
34 New York Times s.1 p.24 (November 24, 1991).
35 New York Times A9 (February 24, 1992).
36 Examples include the "Truth Commission" established in El Salvador as
part of the peace negotiations endings its civil war, and Argentina's
investigation into the disappeared. Amnesty International (1987).
37 14(1) Patterns of Prejudice (January 1980); 15(4) Patterns of Prejudice
(October 1981); Gordon (1982: 34-36). This extends the more common
practice of retraction and apology for defamation.
38 New York Times B16 (November 28, 1991), 12 (December 28, 1991).
South African President F.W. de Klerk's recent statement was similarly
qualified and unsatisfactory:
For too long we clung to a dream of separated nation-states, when it
was already clear that it could not succeed sufficiently. For that we are
sorry.. . . Yes, we have made mistakes. Yes, we have often sinned and
we don't deny this. But that we were evil, malignant and mean—to that
we say "no."
Los Angeles Times A10 (October 10, 1992).
39 The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping the president of Exxon
International, shooting him "accidentally," and locking him in a box,
where he died from a combination of blood loss, asphyxiation, dehydration,
and starvation, said he never intended to harm his victim, was
extremely remorseful, and wished to apologise to the widow. New York
Times A16 (September 16, 1992).
Japan refused to allow a visit by the American pilot who dropped one
of the atom bombs and sought absolution through an apology. It was not
required to respond to the following full-page advertisement by the
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (California).
To the People of Japan, On the Forty-Seventh Anniversary of the First
Use of Atomic Weapons.
We citizens of the United States of America express our sorrow for the
suffering caused by the cruel and unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. We pledge to work for the elimination of nuclear
167