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...withdraw from Kuwait. It is impossible for anyone on either side of the debate to prove that slow deterioration, no matter how prolonged, will accomplish that objective. As the U.S. learned recently in its dealings with Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, even wide-ranging sanctions may not coerce a conscienceless dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sanctions Still Do The Job? | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...within months of their arrival. The Marielitos have since fanned out around the country, and special police squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their first bold strokes: dressed as police SWAT teams, they began invading the homes of Miami drug dealers. Besides stealing cash and dope, the raiders made a point of pistol-whipping, torturing and occasionally raping their victims, who, given their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Parasites on Their Own People | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...have to call Goetz a 98-lb weakling? Up against four strapping teenagers, most of us would look like weaklings. Premeditated self-defense is a perfectly rational response when one is confronted with four strong, savage, conscienceless youths. Laura Callahan Busch Chesterfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1985 | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

...what? One obvious idea is for the Bureau of Conscienceless Glut to buy all the unsalable, hard-to-park gas guzzlers, and distribute them free to the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I'm a Cardless Person | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...other reality is just as disturbing. Without legal and affordable abortion, many lives in progress are hopelessly ruined; the unwanted children very often grow up unloved, battered, conscienceless, trapped and criminal. A whole new virus of misery breeds in the accidental zygotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Of Abortion and the Unfairness of Life | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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