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...claim they warned the plane-who'll ever prove otherwise?" notes former CIA Official George Carver, now a fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But let's not be diverted by fine legal minutiae. They had absolutely no right to commit murder." Experts in international law say the families and countries of victims may have valid claims for damages, but no one expects the Soviets to ever pay restitution...
...within the Herut, Shamir still had to convince the President that he could command a majority of the 120-member parliament. For this he needed to present a list of at least 61 parliamentary supporters. At first, representatives of the smaller parties that had supported Begin refused to commit themselves. The TAMI Party, which represents North African Jews, threatened to break ranks over budget cuts that, its members claim, have taken too much from the poor. Six other deputies demanded a "national unity" government that would include ministers drawn from the Labor Party...
...enough that Ronald Reagan chose to use an ill-conceived bit of humor to make amends to a professional businesswomen's group. But to commit two grammatical errors in one brief remark may bring him a flood of mail from the nation's English teachers. He should have said, "If it weren't for women, we men .. ." It would appear that his grammar is as lacking as his ability to know his audience...
...nightmarish realm only beginning to be forthrightly explored. Its particular horror stems from its viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend themselves from their attackers. For those who commit private violence, who abuse children, beat wives and rape, the usual reasons behind public violence?greed, dementia, vengeance, feral antisocial anger?do not generally apply. How to explain acts of brutality so personal and thus so specially disturbing...
Like Michels, the two Canadian and two Cuban weightlifters caught in Caracas will be banned from the Olympics by their national federa- tions. The U.S. Olympic Commit tee announced last week that spot checks of Americans will be done at all major competitions from now on. And in Los Angeles, says Dr. Daly, "we will have at least equal and perhaps better equipment than was used in Caracas. The message will be: There is no way to beat the system.' " - By Janice Castro. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles