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...Iraqi ban on foreign reporters precludes coverage of the war. A disturbing implication arises from this position: If you can't get neat, satellite-transmitted color videos ready for the seven o'clock news, it's not worth covering. Surely, censorship and restricted information flows cannot and must not deter correspondents from reporting the news. They may not be able to tell us the details of the conflict, but at least reporters can inform us of the gravity of the issue...
Statistics show capital punishment does not deter crime. What use, then, does it hope to fulfill? Criminals don't learn lessons from being killed. Killing a criminal doesn't bring back his victim. Perhaps its purpose is not to punish a criminal's guilt but to satisfy society's lust for revenge. The late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in his autobiography, "Capital punishment is barbaric...its only value is the organism of delight it produces in the public...
...esoteric yet immensely important national debate over how to avoid nuclear war has suddenly been focused like a laser beam on one issue: Should the U.S. develop and deploy a space-based system for defending itself against Soviet missiles so as to deter Moscow from ever contemplating such an attack...
...March 1983 speech unveiling the scheme, he said he hoped the U.S. could erect an umbrella of impenetrable antimissile defenses over itself and its allies. By thus rendering an attacker's weapons impotent, the U.S. would not have to count on ballistic missiles and bombers to deter Soviet aggression or to retaliate against an attack. No longer would "crisis stability" between the superpowers have to be enshrined in a suicide pact...
...rationale for spending this enormous amount of money is alluring. If the U.S. could successfully defend itself against nuclear attack the nuclear dilemma would be radically altered. The need to threaten mass destruction to deter attackers would disappear Peace would cease to depend on the sanity and stability of our enemies Americans would no longer have to live with the knowledge that they, their families and their civilization could be blotted out in an instant...