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...hostility that has marked the long-stalled Viet Nam peace talks. In fact, there was some speculation that the Chinese had a special motivation in choosing Paris as the site for Sino-American contacts. They wanted to show the cantankerous North Vietnamese that Hanoi's displeasure will not deter Peking from following its new line in foreign policy...
Gaylin, who is also a professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University, points out that if, unlike Smith, the wanted person has a medical condition that is possibly fatal, fear of being turned in could deter him from seeking a doctor's attention. "What if, in the next instance of this," asks Gaylin, "the alleged criminal has a heart condition...
...during which the courts and legislatures have struggled with the dilemma of capital punishment. At a time of so much violence in the nation and world, some men, at least, pause to consider whether society can justify taking lives under the law. If so. for what purpose? Vengeance? To deter further crime? Some time during its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the death penalty is constitutional (TIME Essay, Jan. 24). Last week the California Supreme Court arrived at its own conclusion, which will stand no matter how the Burger court decides...
...Marijuana has little or no relation to crime and violence; in fact, it may even help deter them by reducing aggressiveness...
...team 5-1 and then moved into contention for a medal. In women's figure skating, buxom Beatrix Schuba of Austria built up such a commanding lead in the school figures, the technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace and a kind of smiling elan, despite...