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...Crackdown on drunken drivers raises hopes-and doubts
...legal crackdown is prompting a predictable legal response. Fearing the escalated penalties, those arrested are more inclined to pay lawyers $600 for a simple defense, or even $6,000 for a trial...
...defense, Begin lashed out at the "hypocrisy" of the U.N. Security Council, which he said was so ready to condemn Israel but ignored the recent fierce crackdown on dissidents in Syria. "We don't want to spill the blood of any Arab," Begin insisted. "We want to live in peace and mutual honor with the Arabs of the land of Israel...
...article "Reminder, not Revelation" (March 20) William E. McKibben observes that "when the crackdown began in Warsaw, it was the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee that threw together a protest meeting, not the Conservative Club." I should like to make two comments. First, the Conservative Club held a rally in December of 1980, protesting the Soviets' occupation of Afghanistan and calling attention to their intervention, in Poland. Only when that intervention had become so obvious that the left could no longer ignore it did DSOC hold its rally. Second, the coalition of leftists that staged the rally of which Mr. McKibben...
Reagan relished the accounts of how the CIA penetrated the Polish government and how informers, once discovered, were spirited out of the country along with their families-but not before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back...