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...have the courts always acted consistently in other, related cases. Though euthanasia, or deliberate mercy killing, is still regarded as murder, the courts have generally dealt lightly with those accused of it. Juries in such cases have shown a reluctance to convict; even when they do, judges have usually been lenient in their sentencing. In a 1968 case in Illinois, for example, a 69-year-old man admitted to suffocating his crippled wife and then attempting to take his own life. The judge, on his own initiative, withdrew the man's guilty plea, entered a judgment of not guilty...
Opposition to helping New York is chiefly based on arguments that it will set a dangerous precedent. Before he softened his view slightly, Burns, for instance, argued that if the Government intervenes in the crisis, "self-reliance in our country, which has been diminishing, will be dealt another blow." Said he: "There's now a tendency to run to Washington to solve all of our problems. The free enterprise system involves a certain degree of risk, and we should let that risk be taken and the consequences as well...
...midweek every Western European government save Ireland had recalled its ambassador from Madrid or kept him at home for "consultations"-gestures of protest against the executions. In Brussels, the Common Market's governing Commission dealt Spain what one official termed "the strongest political rebuff" ever given by the EEC; it recommended suspension of negotiations that had been under way since mid-1973 for a new preferential trade agreement between Spain and the Market. The impact of the EEC's move could be painful, as the nine Common Market members buy nearly half of all Spanish exports...
...view of the ever-vigilant CIA, even Richard Nixon may not have been above suspicion. When he was campaigning for the presidency in 1968, the agency secretly opened a letter that he received from Ray Price, a speechwriter traveling in Moscow; the contents dealt only with Nixon's election prospects. Idaho's Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, disclosed last week that the Nixon letter was one of many thousands that were illegally photographed and filed away from 1952 to 1973, when the program was stopped on orders from former CIA Director James Schlesinger, now Secretary...
...People from Detesting You" comes down to two words: "Don't try." For with all one's dreadful odors (physical and moral), one certainly is detestable. What, then, is left? Your duty, your honor rest upon keeping even more detestable people from thriving, especially at your expense. Dealt with most specifically, these scoundrels number accountants who steal your money, doctors who remove your healthier organs, the snobs above you who black ball you from their clubs, the "bootless and unhorsed" below you whom you would surely blackball from your club if only you could belong, and almost...