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...United States Information Agency, the VOA was used to help fight Cold War ideological battles. Since Russian transmitters jammed the VOA broadcasts, the VOA transmitted on the 'enemy' country's own domestic bands, and in Russian. The VOA programming was increasingly inflammatory, causing the Soviet Union to cite a 1936 Geneva resolution against broadcasts which "incite the population of any territory to acts incompatible with internal order." In addition, the USIA transgressed against the Copenhagen Convention of 1948 by transmitting on a frequency assigned to Moscow at twice the wattage of the Russian transmitter...
...explaining the city's recalcitrance with regard to registering students, Cambridge officials usually cite the fact that most students are not financially self-supporting and therefore do not make a significant contribution to the city's tax assessors. Students only remain in the city for a certain amount of time, ultimately reaping the benefits of their education elsewhere, they contend. Students's interest in the machinations of the city's political life, therefore, cannot possibly stem from concern over the effect the city's government will have on them directly, since they are only in the city for the limited...
...bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite as a forerunner of their mass movement...
Many legal scholars doubt that the Burger Court will eliminate capital punishment; among other indicators, they cite an earlier case, in which a death sentence was upheld. Justice Black wrote a concurring opinion stating, "It is inconceivable to me that the Framers intended to end capital punishment by the [Eighth] Amendment." On the other hand, last week the court saved 39 prisoners from execution, including Richard Speck, who killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966. The convictions of the 39 were not affected, but the sentences were set aside on the basis of a 1968 decision which held imposition...
...example, can save a difficult baby from becoming a tyrannical adult. Most important, in an age overafflicted by clinical pigeonholing, an understanding of temperament prevents parents-and teachers-from imagining that some deep intellectual or psychological disturbance underlies every home and school difficulty. By way of illustration, the doctors cite the case of Annie, a slow-to-warm-up child of seven who at first did poorly in an accelerated school program. She was quiet, never volunteered and often made mistakes. But her mother, aware that this was Annie's normal reaction to new situations, protested a teacher recommendation...