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Coast Guard officials see the case as a freak tragedy with no larger lessons. Still, some in the Coast Guard are asking whether the institution should have let the potentially career-ending charges hang over Blanchard for so long. By comparison, when a top Navy admiral suggested during a breakfast with the press last year that U.S. servicemen charged in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl would have been smarter to hire a prostitute instead, he was out of his job by dinnertime. "The stress level went up as it dragged on and on," Connie Blanchard says...
Your story on Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski [SPECIAL REPORT, April 15] prompts a comparison with the American writer Henry David Thoreau. Both men built cabins in remote areas. Both railed against industrialism, distrusted the government, withdrew from society and rejected progress, materialism, invention and the machine. But Thoreau, while certainly a radical, was also somewhat of a visionary. He communed intensely with nature. The Unabomber suspect, however, like Karl Marx and others who used violence to gain their ends, killed, maimed and fostered civil disorder. Thoreau was a man of learning who gave sage instruction. The Unabomber...
...Mild in comparison with the U.S., social ills are nevertheless becoming more acute. The use of amphetamines and marijuana is growing, as is the fear of crime. In the past, only members of the Mafia, or yakuza, carried guns, and for the most part they killed only other yakuza. But last year there were several brutal handgun murders that did not involve mobsters. Three female employees at a supermarket, for example, were shot in the head in a Tokyo holdup. An advisory board to the National Police Agency last year endorsed the hiring of tens of thousands of additional police...
...executives, who rarely get befuddled enough to turn down business. In announcing a ban on attack ads last month, ABC said it feared that such spots could be "misinterpreted" by viewers as "overplaying the health concerns involved." The other networks pulled the fiercest ads but continue to run milder comparison spots...
Though the monetary value of Harvard's account is not large in comparison to PepsiCo's net earnings, Berry says he believes that "Harvard has a little bit of bully pulpit and we might be able to use that to get Pepsi to pull out of Burma...