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...short, acknowledged Clarke, the Alaska ban did not change the status quo all that much, and the merits of what it did change are open to debate. But the Alaska experience does underscore a blunt reality of criminal justice. As Chicago Law School Dean Norval Morris puts it, "Most defendants plead guilty because they are guilty." And if that is so, say Morris and others, perhaps the real question is not so much whether plea bargaining deprives the accused of his right to a jury trial, but whether he gets a fair and rational sentence...
...answers to questions on the screen of a computer terminal. For the early part of the interview, the computer is programmed to cajole and compliment the user ("You're a pro at using the terminal"). But when it is time for the crucial questions, the computer is blunt ("What are your chances of being dead from suicide one month from now?" "By what method do you plan to commit suicide...
...Sheed dossiers combine straight biographical facts with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is said to be "a lover of fast cars" who currently zips about in a red BMW 3000. In Guatemala, Mario Casariego has been so closely identified with the regime that his automobile is always accompanied by "a radio patrol and two armed motorcycle guards...
Though the Postal Service is a quasi-Government organization, the union leadership is infuriated by the Administration's blunt intrusion into the contract talks. Instead of quietly urging the chiefs to hold down wage demands, the White House has publicly and repeatedly insisted that they settle for no more than 5.5% a year-the same raise that Carter has said he will approve later this summer for 1,350,000 civil service workers. In fact, postal workers already earn an average wage of $15,423 a year, nearly 50% more than the national average for private nonfarm workers...
...case Congress did not get that message, Premier Ecevit was even more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...