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...deed was done so swiftly and so unexpectedly that rumors still linger in Australia about what really happened. From the day in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the leftist Labor Party and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges...
...illness before permitting their release (as opposed to the present system, which requires that the government prove the defendant is still insane and should remain in stitutionalized) would be far less unjust than the guilty but-mentally-ill verdict, and certainly less disingenuous. If the insanity plea has in deed become a big courtroom game, the guilty but mentally-ill verdict does not encourage a change in the rules Rather, it encourages cheating...
...themselves in the face of deteriorating health. After five operations this year to stave off leg amputations from diabetes-induced circulatory problems, Leicester shot himself in the head. Two decades earlier he wrote of his brother's suicide: "Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed...
Shooting the President for the love of a movie star is the acting out of a fantasy by a man clearly not in touch with reality. John Hinckley's deed was not motivated by revenge or the desire for political aggrandizement. It was a violent act by a man who didn't understand the difference between right and wrong. The American justice system worked. If it continues to function properly, then John Hinckley Jr. will be treated as the sick...
...BASEBALL GAME, at its best," writes Thomas Boswell, "can be like an elaborate and breathlessy balanced house of cards. Tension and a sense of crisis build with each inning. Each deed of the game, each player, finds his supporting role...