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Death-penalty opponents believe the race argument is the strongest one left in their arsenal. But the arsenal is dwindling. Even those who still expect the ultimate defeat of capital punishment are worried. "The Immediate future is grim," says the Rev. Joe Ingle, who leads a Southern prison-reform group. "We've got to brace ourselves for losing some folks. It's like being in a war." One loss came just three days after the court's proportionality decision. In Florida, Anthony Antone, 66, convicted of arranging the contract killing of an organized-crime investigator, was electrocuted...
Recently, D'Aubuisson used an old weapon from his campaign arsenal: anti-Americanism. At rallies, D'Aubuisson has increasingly stressed the theme of the Reagan Administration's meddling...
...task force to search out egregious state laws discriminating against women, and to recommend corrective action. However, many such laws have been found, and none have been addressed by the Justice Department during the Administration's tenure. Certainly this glaring question mark could become part of the Democratic arsenal against the incumbent. It would lend some meat to the predominantly "image"-type denunciations thus...
...humiliating incident occurred two weeks ago in the southern town of Anamorós when, after a brief firefight, an army company of 135 men surrendered. Though the rebels announced that they would return the soldiers through the International Red Cross, they pointedly added that they would keep an arsenal that included 153 assault rifles, four M-79 grenade launchers, a 90-mm cannon and 50,000 rounds of ammunition...
Perhaps the biggest weapon in the arsenal of the upstarts is price. Hawaiian Pacific will charge only $338 for a round-trip ticket between Honolulu and Denver, vs. the usual fare of $700. The leader in bargain-basement flying is three-year-old People Express. It jolted the industry last summer by offering flights from Newark to London for only $149, vs. $275 for most regular coach fares...