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...President Ronald Reagan said at his press conference that he knew "of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution" who did not pursue the goal of "world revolution ... The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat...
Reagan then did some prodding of his own by indicating that he might attempt a different, unspecified tack if the crisis was not resolved by the time he takes office on Jan. 20. Though he said he would probably support a Carter-negotiated settlement, the President-elect would not commit himself absolutely. Said Reagan...
...acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...
...Murphy's best hope now is that Judge George Pratt will follow the precedent of Philadelphia Judge John P. Fullam, who last month overturned the convictions of two city councilmen on the grounds that the elaborate FBI operation had entrapped the defendants and induced them to commit a crime. The two Congressmen plan to appeal, but they may have difficulty arguing that they were entrapped, because they did not raise the issue in their trial...
...that he had picked up a "half-hundred" foreign photographs for William. "But they are too dear to permit me to buy any fancy ones for you," the letter continued, "...If I had only brought a little more money with me!" Later in her life, when she threatened to commit suicide during one of her nervous attacks, Henry senior blithely informed her "that so far as I was concerned she had my full permission to end her life whenever she pleased...