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Problems, should they arise, will come in the form of injuries to the defensive line, where the Crimson's talent seldom goes deeper than the second string...
Under Social Security regulations, workers with serious injuries, like the loss of two limbs, seldom have difficulty proving that they are entitled to disability payments. For those with other problems, including some types of mental instability, the rules say benefits should be paid if a review shows that these individuals are unable to work. But the Reagan Administration failed to follow the rules, says New York's Attorney General Robert Abrams, who sued the Social Security Administration on behalf of 4,000 mentally ill New Yorkers who were lopped from the rolls, plus an estimated 55,000 whose applications...
Furthermore, Goldwater said, "it has been the foreign policy and defense weakness of Democrat Administrations that have led us to war in the past," thus reviving an old, seldom used Republican charge that a Democrat was in the White House at the start of every war fought by the U.S. in this century. Other Republican speakers had limited their Democrat bashing to the current ticket, but Goldwater had crustily rejected all requests to tone down his remarks. Explained a Reagan aide: "He insisted on keeping the lines he liked...
Despite these expensive and humiliating defeats, there is little likelihood that the Government will change its investigative ways. Without what one lawman calls "creeps as witnesses," it would be impossible to solve most drug, organized-crime and official-corruption cases. Dan Webb, U.S. attorney in Chicago, for instance, seldom tries a major criminal case in which some witnesses do not "carry baggage"-have criminal records. Webb's prosecutors may have set a record for the use of bad-guy witnesses, when in 1982 they paraded some 50 criminals into court to testify against ten police officers charged with taking...
...individually. The happiest circumstance, of course, is when they take turns. First U.S. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton rejoiced as Rumania's Ecaterina Szabo sighed, then a couple of days later Ecaterina laughed and Mary Lou made a petulant face. The athletic world, like the real world, is seldom so equitable. Fairness is not really the essence of sport...