Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe there should be equal punishment for all ages. If you commit a murder at 16, you're just as guilty...
...Green Berets may be involved in the plots. Gaddafi has openly hired ex-employees of those organizations to further his causes. Two notorious former CIA agents now living in Libya, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil (both wanted in the U.S. on charges of conspiring to sell explosives and to commit murder), are known to have supplied military and terrorist technology to Libya. More than a dozen onetime Green Berets, recruited by Wilson, have trained Libyan troops. Federal investigators are in the process of tracking down for further questioning numbers of CIA agents and Green Berets who have worked in Libya...
...question that is increasingly posed by a society that has become terrified of its young. When is a juvenile no longer a juvenile? To a growing number of lawyers, politicians and citizens, the answer is that youthful offenders who commit "grownup" crimes should no longer be treated as children. Says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller: "The pendulum is swinging in favor of making juveniles accountable as adults, for adult crimes, at an earlier age." Sometimes a single crime is enough to change the rules. In Vermont last spring, two boys, ages 15 and 16, allegedly raped, stabbed and beat...
...patrolman with a sawed-off shotgun; he was condemned to death by an adult court. His lawyers have asked the Justices to rule that death is a disproportionate penalty for so young an offender. However the court rules, though, the public mood apparently holds that anyone old enough to commit the crime is old enough to pay the price...
...against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than to a right one? -By Richard Schickel