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...Navy believed that by firing Lieutenant Geltz, it would solve its problem, making an example of someone who thought for himself and challenged the wisdom of his superiors. There couldn't be a clearer case of the military taking its passion for order to Orwellian extremes. The Navy responded to Geltz's challenge by declaring that the government is always right. If it says that two plus two equals five, let Lieutenant Geltz's dismissal serve as an example to those who object...
Reichley said "the media has jumped to unwarranted conclusions that Brown is the center of the focus of this investigation, when it's becoming clearer by the hour that this is an ever-expanding, ever-widening investigation...
...deficit to the $144 billion mark that Gramm-Rudman requires. Board Member Feldstein thinks that taxes will eventually have to be raised, but that the Administration will not go along with an increase until after the 1986 congressional elections, "when the magnitude of the problem will be clearer...
...this happen and spent long hours trying to keep his moral balance. He remembers creating the kind of unity among prisoners that he once strived for among Soviet dissidents. "The Soviet authorities hate any kind of solidarity among independent-minded people," he says. "In prison this becomes even clearer than it is in ordinary life. Prisoners are forbidden to write collective letters of protest. You are punished if you write to the authorities on behalf of another prisoner --say a sick man who is not getting any medical attention. The authorities say, 'Look, your letters don't help.' And they...
...preparation for the trial progressed, it was becoming clearer and clearer that our best defense was a medical one," said Dershowitz, whose book is excerpted in the March edition of Penthouse magazine...