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Harvard can do little to keep the regulation from becoming law, other than using the next three weeks of public comment period to speak out against it Officials say the regulation is a fait accompli...
Rowny, a retired Army general who was a negotiator-turned-opponent of the SALT II treaty, refuses to comment on previously unpublicized details of the U.S. position, such as the restrictions on SS-18s and SS-19s. But he defends the attempt to limit Soviet throw weight. "Warheads and throw weight go hand in hand," he said in an interview with TIME on the eve of his departure for Geneva. While calling his job "one of the toughest around," Rowny is convinced that for reasons of their own military self-interest, the Soviets may yet accept an agreement based...
...attention to victims is a comment in part on the frustrations of criminal law. Plea bargains, delays and judicial concern constitutional for suspects' rights can rescue a wrongdoer. Moreover, a criminal trial pits a defendant against soci ety; the victim is not a party. As a result, more and more victims are going to civil court in quest of damages. Says Wyoming Attorney Johnson Gerry Spence: "Such cases are as close to basic historical justice as man has ever known...
There is no lack of issues, or of partisans. Since it was put forward for public comment eleven months ago, the regulation has sparked 120,000 responses, including objections from agencies of all 38 states that aired their views. Opponents branded it the "squeal rule." The Reagan Administration did not flinch. "We've built a Berlin Wall between the kid and the parents," insisted Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker. The new rule, he added, is "a reasonable balance" between the need to offer such services and the need not to undermine the role of parents...
Unfortunately, the very issues about which Naylor writes with profound clarity prove one of the novel's greatest downfalls. She wants to write about so many issues that at times she seems anxious to squeeze in at least a one-line comment about every contemporary social issue. At a moment when the protagonist of one story is on her knees, paralyzed with fear and horror before six youths who are about to rape her, Naylor takes time out to comment on the problems of the rapists...