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...probably be sentencing a number of Americans to death," presumably from terrorists' revenge. Besides, he said, terrorists are difficult to isolate, and if "you just aim in the general direction and kill some people, well, then you're a terrorist too." It was a candid statement of a fearful dilemma: placing an overriding value on human life is the hallmark of a moral nation, yet it puts that nation at a disadvantage in confronting zealots who live by the gun and bomb and are perfectly willing to spill innocent blood, and indeed their own, in a fanatic cause...
...dilemma was complicated by the fact that only last month the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres provoked a national uproar with a perceived departure from that principle. To secure the release of three Israeli soldiers who had been captured and held by Palestinians during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Jerusalem granted freedom to 1,150 mostly Palestinian prisoners, including 167 convicted terrorists. Though the trade was not a hostage deal, some critics charged that the inclusion of terrorists damaged the credibility of Israel's insistence that it would not bargain with enemies who attack civilians. Amid widespread feeling that...
...asks that they consider "women's increasing role in society" and suggests that women's membership will enhance, rather than constrain, their social events and general well-being. No consensus is reached by the club presidents. Epps tells The Crimson "the presidents are all very troubled by the dilemma of on the one hand honoring [all-male] tradition, and [on the other] the force of the ethical issue of equal treatment for women...
KLITGAARD'S SECTION on affirmative action focuses on this troubling dilemma. Here he restates the most controversial findings of the Klitgaard Report, and while he is careful to qualify his conclusions, he minces no words. For unknown reasons, he states, at the right tail of academic qualifications, "there are surprisingly large differences in the performance of various ethnic groups." In 1983, for instance, 570 Blacks had combined SAT scores above 1200, compared to 60,400 whites--numbers which are also disproportionate to the numbers of the groups taking the test. More troubling, according to his research, standardized test scores tend...
...economists were optimistic that Congress and the White House are making a serious start toward resolving the budget dilemma. "I think we are getting closer and closer to a real breakthrough on bringing the deficit down," said Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who served for two years as President Reagan's chief economic adviser. The board was particularly encouraged by the resolution passed three weeks ago in the Republican-controlled Senate, which was designed to trim $56 billion from the 1986 budget, leaving a deficit of $171 billion. The plan would, among other things, eliminate the 1986 cost of living increase...