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Ronald Reagan said of Soviet leaders two weeks ago: "The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The Soviet leadership has been characterized in strong terms before, but was Reagan's statement too sweeping? Reagan did not think so. Said he last week: "They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or a religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what...
...hard to come by because many suicides go unreported, but different experts estimate that from 36 to 77 of every 100,000 physicians die by their own hand every year, at least three times the rate for the population at large. Put another way, almost as many doctors commit suicide annually-upwards of 130-as graduate from Harvard Medical School. Of all professionals, doctors may be the most self-destructive.* Says Garcia, now on the staff of Los Angeles' Suicide Prevention Center: "With the statistics the way they are for physicians, I feel very fortunate to have made...
...President Ronald Reagan said at his press conference that he knew "of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution" who did not pursue the goal of "world revolution ... The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat...
...Harrison Williams of New Jersey, is scheduled to begin on March 30. Already, however, the FBI investigation itself is on trial before Federal Judge George Pratt, who is holding hearings in New York City on whether the agents went too far in trying to encourage Congressmen and others to commit illegal acts. Indeed, Judge William Bryant, who presided at Kelly's trial, has said that Abscam "has an odor to it that is absolutely repulsive." Nonetheless, Justice Department lawyers are confident that the defendants can not show enough evidence of Government overreaching to get the convictions thrown...
Reagan then did some prodding of his own by indicating that he might attempt a different, unspecified tack if the crisis was not resolved by the time he takes office on Jan. 20. Though he said he would probably support a Carter-negotiated settlement, the President-elect would not commit himself absolutely. Said Reagan...