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According to documents seen by TIME, Israel handled most of its sales through Faroukh Azzizi, an Iranian arms merchant who lives in Athens. The papers show that Azzizi purchased U.S.-made Tow missiles from Israel in November 1982. The shipment went to Amsterdam before reaching Tehran. Says a senior Western diplomat in Brussels: "Israeli and American claims that Israel made only a single, isolated sale are pretty disingenuous." The Israeli government firmly denies any wrong doing. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Nachman Shai last week: "We have not violated any agreement between the U.S. and us that forbids selling American-made...
After stopping off at the University of Amsterdam to write a master's thesis attacking the Marshall Plan, Kelly moved in 1972 to Brussels and a job at European Community headquarters that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming...
...these crimes aren't going to be deterred by the electric chair." Some might be encouraged. "For every person for whom the death penalty is a deterrent," says Stanford Psychiatry Professor Donald Lunde, "there's at least one for whom it is an incentive." Such murderers, says Amsterdam, "are attracted by the Jimmy Cagney image of 'live fast, die young and have a beautiful corpse...
Opponents of capital punishment feel that prison terms without parole would deter as many potential murderers as the death penalty. Says Amsterdam: "The degree of punishment is not necessarily a deterrent even to someone who thinks rationally. What deters people from crime is the likelihood of getting caught and undergoing punishment." Reppetto agrees: "I always favor something that will get tough with a lot of offenders instead of getting very tough with just a handful...
...satisfying enough to feel like human instinct: the worst possible crime deserves no less than the worst possible punishment. "An eye for an eye," says Illinois Farmer Jim Hensley. "That's what it has to be. People can't be allowed to get away with killing." Counters Amsterdam: "The answer can hardly be found in a literal application of the eye-for-an-eye formula. We do not burn down arsonists' houses." The scriptures do preach mercy as well as retribution. Last Saturday, in fact, Pope John Paul II sweepingly recommended "clemency, or pardon, for those condemned...