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...weapon that became famous for its successful use against Britain during the 1982 Falklands war took out an advertisement in a British magazine last week-not to apologize but to defend the weapon against charges that it is a lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic...
Says Graphic Designer Jan Souza, 34, of Cambridge, Mass.: "He's a humanist hero who fills a need in our technological soci ety." Notes Barbara Shewchuk, 28, a stenographer from Bridgeport, Pa.: "The fact that Doctor Who cares about all life forms shows that you can trust...
...attention to victims is a comment in part on the frustrations of criminal law. Plea bargains, delays and judicial concern constitutional for suspects' rights can rescue a wrongdoer. Moreover, a criminal trial pits a defendant against soci ety; the victim is not a party. As a result, more and more victims are going to civil court in quest of damages. Says Wyoming Attorney Johnson Gerry Spence: "Such cases are as close to basic historical justice as man has ever known...
Moderates, centered in the State and Commerce departments, have argued that it is difficult to use economic pressure to force a totalitarian soci ety to change its foreign policy. Such countries can drive down standards of living a long way before they cut military spending. Moreover, the Soviet Union could be less predictable and more dangerous when it is economically weak than when it is doing well...
...bestowed after the fall. Some of the miscreants of Watergate have profited handsomely. But of John they have had all of those legal fees to cover. John Dean commands $2,000 to $3,500 on the lecture platform. He sometimes shares the stage with Bob Woodward. But if the soci ety bestows fame and wealth upon people forced out of government in disgrace, what virtues are being proclaimed? How do we then say that the system worked? The phenomenon is comparable to noting that, in an economic sense, Japan and Germany emerged as the winners of World...