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...least by the standards of the day. "A man beats up his wife because he can," says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, one of the pioneers in the study of family violence. Indeed, a man usually does not beat up his boss or male acquaintances. The consequences???loss of job, a charge of criminal assault, an old-fashioned black eye?are simply too great. Now the consequences are rising for violence against one's wife. Shelters for abused women have created a safety net for wives who previously would have been afraid to take their husbands to court...
...issue of such rising prominence?and potentially deadly consequences???hinges on two related enterprises: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's beleaguered plans to deploy 572 new American missiles in Western Europe, and the superpowers' deadlocked negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF). Barring a breakthrough in those talks, which resume this week in Geneva, NATO is committed to begin deploying its missiles by the end of this year. If it fails to meet that deadline, the Western Alliance will have demonstrated to itself and to its adversaries that it is incapable of carrying out the most important collective decision...
Beyond the disastrous political and social consequences???the reopened Watergate wound, the revived climate of distrust and division?the pardon, for all its compassion, is bad theology. On its own terms, within Ford's Bible-oriented, evangelical Christian framework, it does not meet traditional tests for an act of judicial mercy. One of the most serious defects is Nixon's continuing reluctance to admit any real fault in the Watergate affair...
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