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Cawley said at first the work "seemed like the world's oldest con job," and that he still has "too many doubts to commit myself...
...stem from a belief that the "massive safeguards for accused persons" built up by the judicial system in recent decades are out of proportion with the protection now afforded to law abiding citizens. He urged more stringent standards on bail to prevent the release of suspects likely to commit a crime between their arrest and trial. For those who end up behind bars, he renewed his familiar proposals for better facilities, improved training, and more sensible incentives to "learn the way out of prison...
Ronald Reagan said of Soviet leaders two weeks ago: "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." The Soviet leadership has been characterized in strong terms before, but was Reagan's statement too sweeping? Reagan did not think so. Said he last week: "They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or a religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what...
...hard to come by because many suicides go unreported, but different experts estimate that from 36 to 77 of every 100,000 physicians die by their own hand every year, at least three times the rate for the population at large. Put another way, almost as many doctors commit suicide annually-upwards of 130-as graduate from Harvard Medical School. Of all professionals, doctors may be the most self-destructive.* Says Garcia, now on the staff of Los Angeles' Suicide Prevention Center: "With the statistics the way they are for physicians, I feel very fortunate to have made...
...Harrison Williams of New Jersey, is scheduled to begin on March 30. Already, however, the FBI investigation itself is on trial before Federal Judge George Pratt, who is holding hearings in New York City on whether the agents went too far in trying to encourage Congressmen and others to commit illegal acts. Indeed, Judge William Bryant, who presided at Kelly's trial, has said that Abscam "has an odor to it that is absolutely repulsive." Nonetheless, Justice Department lawyers are confident that the defendants can not show enough evidence of Government overreaching to get the convictions thrown...