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Polish officials "will see that they can't commit their crimes with impunity," Baranczak said, adding, "Unfortunately, we are helpless in not being able to impose any concrete sanctions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Scholars Protest Polish Situation | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...believe there should be equal punishment for all ages. If you commit a murder at 16, you're just as guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 4, 1982 | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...honestly, justly, and the church has to do the same for the spirit. So, many slogans coming from the church agree with ours, and we can use them, but of course all of us cannot be dressed as priests. Somebody has to be in the factory, somebody must commit sins, and somebody must give money to the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Lech Walesa | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...Green Berets may be involved in the plots. Gaddafi has openly hired ex-employees of those organizations to further his causes. Two notorious former CIA agents now living in Libya, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil (both wanted in the U.S. on charges of conspiring to sell explosives and to commit murder), are known to have supplied military and terrorist technology to Libya. More than a dozen onetime Green Berets, recruited by Wilson, have trained Libyan troops. Federal investigators are in the process of tracking down for further questioning numbers of CIA agents and Green Berets who have worked in Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Hit Teams:Libya | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than to a right one? -By Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Right Spirit, Wrong Cause | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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