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Questions persist that once seemed, at least to the Left, to have simple answers. Did the people of South Viet Nam really want Communism? The 1 million people who have risked their lives to escape the regime have stated their opinion. Did the American bombing of Cambodia, as some contend, really cause Pol Pot's unthinkable holocaust? A Khmer Rouge leader and theoretician named Khieu Samphan actually formulated the ideological foundation for the genocide long before the Americans started bombing. Pol Pot, once in power, set in motion the "Year Zero" program that led to the extermination of one-fourth...
...violent crime is on the decline, is the citizen outcry misplaced? Most analysts say no. They contend that the three-point drop has little practical impact on individuals living in crime-ridden areas. Perceptions of the danger come more from reading about crime in local newspapers or hearing about it from neighbors. "People experience crime in terms of their vicarious personal lives, not in terms of statistics," notes Douglas Thomson, a criminal-justice-system researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Even with the decline, murder in the U.S. is more prevalent than in other industrial democracies. The violent crime...
Kampelman and his colleagues also had to contend with the scrutiny of ten visiting U.S. Senators and eight Congressmen, all of whom had to be briefed regularly. Said Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, one of the group: "If a treaty should emerge, we in the Senate would need to have more than a cursory knowledge of it." Although Kampelman & Co. readily offered backgrounding, they fear that leaks, misstatements and well-meant meddling by the lawmakers could disrupt the talks...
...Morgenthau, who faces an election this year, the case has become a political snare. Those upset by the first grand jury's lenient treatment contend that the district attorney did not press the grand jury hard enough for an indictment for attempted homicide against Goetz, who had overnight become celebrated as a quirky urban hero, an Everyman who finally fought back. In New York, unlike some other states, prosecutors seeking a grand jury indictment are required to present a balanced case and must include exculpatory evidence. Even so Morgenthau was astonished by the original grand jury's finding. "We thought...
...past several years, local schools have had to contend with shrinking budgets, largely due to the passage of proposition 2 and 1/2, Macero said. This tax-cutting measure limits cities's authority to increase property taxes above 2.5 percent per year. Most municipal revenues are generated by property taxes...