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...greater disclosure. Los Angeles psychotherapist Nancy Kless, who specializes in treating crime ( victims, contends that the "secondary injury" of being named can impede patients' recovery. Irene Nolan, managing editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, wishes her paper could name rape victims but concedes that such a move might deter some women from reporting assaults to police. "I would like to change the paper's policy, but I don't think our community is ready for it," says Nolan...
Cuomo opposes the death penalty on all counts. It does not deter, he says -- and indeed it has never convincingly been shown to do so. It has been wrongly applied, says Cuomo -- and according to one study, in New York alone, eight innocent people have been executed since 1905. It is more costly than life imprisonment, claims the Governor -- and, given the time and funds expended by a state through the appeals process, he is right. Above all, says Cuomo, it "demeans and debases us. The death penalty tells our children that it is O.K. to meet violence with violence...
...Pacific Ocean has been, in military terms, an American lake. From naval bases in the Aleutian Islands and southward to Subic Bay in the Philippines, 107 U.S. warships and 51 submarines project commanding seapower. Ashore, mostly in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, 120,000 American troops are poised to deter aggression along the Pacific's western rim. Now, with the Soviet threat waning under the U.S.S.R.'s economic and ideological decay, is that U.S. military presence still necessary...
...Joseph S. Nye--was designed primarily to ensure the rights of speakers invited to Harvard while maintaining the audience's right to dissent. It was prompted by two 1987 speaking events in which speakers were shouted down by hostile audience members. University officials had feared that the incidents would deter others from coming to Harvard...
...should push for a policy of minimal deterrence. In the past ten years, the number of Soviet sites designated for nuclear destruction has grown to more than 20,000, including hundreds of bunkers and communications centers. The superpowers should evolve toward far smaller arsenals, designed merely to survive -- and deter -- a surprise attack with the capacity to retaliate...