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...testimony had convinced a jury in a similar case in 1976 (see above), argued that Durkin had temporarily gone insane. The jury found Durkin not guilty, but passed over the insanity issue and decided the officer had thought his life was in danger. Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola expressed disgust at the verdict: "Any man who shoots an unarmed man twice in the back should not be given a gun and put back on the streets." Durkin did not return to duty...
Reactions to the first major snowstorm of the season this weekend ranged from disgust to indifference to ecstasy...
...language problem, never realizes that Begin would almost certainly have won a strong majority had an election been held up at any time up until the massacre. The Lebanese invasion unquestionably did not have the unanimous consent of earlier conflicts. But Timerman mistakes a significant opposition for national disgust with the war and the government. His misunderstanding is startingly fundamental and stems from a profound and inexcusable ignorance of the physical and psychological toll the Palestinian terrorists have taken on Israel...
...Reagan Administration's new combative strategy toward the U.N. may prove vital to the organization. For one thing, Washington's attitude implies a commitment to stay and fight, rather than simply withdraw in disgust. As Jeane Kirkpatrick, the controversial U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "We need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable...
...failed at everything. "My idea of a perfect afternoon was lying in front of the radio rereading my favorite Big Little Book, Dick Tracy Meets Stooge Viller . . . seeing me having a good time in repose, she was powerless to hide her disgust. 'You've got no more gumption than a bump on a log,' she said," dispatching her errant son on some new mission of self-improvement...