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...method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a bill to make spying for money punishable by death, was even more draconian. "If there is an execution, it should be public and on television," he said. "I want the widest possible visibility of this kind of crime (to) deter people who may be starting down this road...
...problem to address," Enrile said last week. Others disagree. Said a staff report prepared last year for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: "There is doubt that the Marcos regime either understands fully or can cope effectively with the Communist threat." Such claims do not deter the President. "I deny the premise that the insurgency is growing," he said last week. "I think we have hit the Communists in so many places so hard...
Shultz's message did not deter Israel from asking for $4.9 billion in U.S. military and economic aid over the next 21 months. Included in this request is an extra $800 million in financial assistance for fiscal 1985, in addition to the $2.6 billion already appropriated by Congress for the year. Some State Department officials call the additional request "unbelievable." Shultz had urged Israel to trim its $23 billion budget for fiscal 1985 by at least a billion dollars beyond the $1.5 billion in cuts already planned. He also suggested an end to the system of tying wage and benefit...
...tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many criminals were being caught. Retailers now generally pin them on the outside of garments so that they will just deter would-be thieves...
Luckily, however, such caveats do not deter the North House and Leverett House Drama Societies from staging a joint production of Miss Julie that is solid and, at times, even sparkling...