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...muggers' and rapists' perspective, the uncertainty of imprisonment, indeed the likelihood of avoiding it, is actually an incentive to commit crime. Out of 550,000 reported crimes in New York City in 1983, police made 106,000 arrests, but only 13,500 suspects wound up behind bars. Observes Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Richter Jr. of Charleston, S.C.: "The Goetz incident is just symptomatic of what's going on everywhere. People are just sick and tired of being pushed around by punks...
Perhaps steps should be taken to ensure the continuation of this legend. Perhaps a tenure of some sort might be in order, to help defray the enormous phone bills his life's work must incur. Maybe a tour on the lecture circuit, masked of course, would raise the available funds. Anyone who pays to see Daniel Ortega lambast the United States in Spanish would certainly pay to see the Action Man discuss his views on the world situation. He wouldn't have to stay at the Hyatt Regency, either...
...rising Republican star even before the switch. In four years at the U.N. she became known for her strongly anti- Marxist views and unapologetic willingness to use U.S. clout. Her academic credentials (tenure at Georgetown University, four books) and blunt rhetoric made her a hit on the lecture circuit and TV interview shows. She was the sensation of last summer's Republican National Convention in Dallas, where her attack on Democrats who "always blame America first" evoked a cheering response that all but brought the roof down. Says Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee: "She commands...
...Andropov era, a phrase that suggested a clean and welcome break with the past. His style seemed fresh and that, it was assumed, connoted a change in the content of Soviet policy. Here was a Soviet leader who would be comfortable and stimulating on the Georgetown cocktail circuit, and who would therefore be equally easy to get along with at a summit...
Months ago when Mikhail Gorbachev began to move more visibly around the power circuit of the Soviet Union, U.S. intelligence analysts started to feed background on him into Ronald Reagan's morning reading. There was an assumption among the experts that something was bubbling up in the Kremlin's gerontocracy, whose members were expiring with discouraging regularity. After 67 years there were signs that the old group of Soviet leaders, steeped in the traditions of the revolution and shaped by the horrors of World War II, was giving way to a new generation...