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...years, there have been frequent accusations, particularly from the right wing in the Senate, of flagrant Soviet violations of SALT. While the charges are numerous and persistent, none of them has stuck. The Soviets take full advantage of loopholes, and play as close as they can to the sometimes fuzzy edges of the agreements, but they have been at least as careful to abide by the letter of the nuclear arms pacts...
...audience responded with applause as he outlined what he termed the mounting dangers of careless toxic waste disposal and an escalating arms race. He lambasted Reagan's treatment of the Environmental Protection Agency adding that he couldn't think of a time since Watergate when we have seen such flagrant violation of law by high officials...
...Speaking to a crowd of about 500,000 gathered for Mass at a military parade ground in the capital, the Pope stressed that the government still had to improve its human rights record. Said John Paul: "When you trample a man, when you violate his rights, when you commit flagrant injustices against him, when you submit him to torture, break in and kidnap him or violate his right to life, you commit a crime and a grave offense against...
...liberals' point, of course. If you overtly distrust the system, in some sort of superstitious way you are inviting it not to work. What was galling was the suspicion that they would forgive all sorts of antisocial behavior-shoplifting, say, flagrant adultery, embezzlement and, of course, mugging-provided some acceptable frailty of the psyche or pocketbook could be dredged up to excuse it. Even the faintest suggestion that an individual might be justified or obliged to use violence in defending himself touched some deep root of outrage in his neighbors and his wife...
...reprieve expired last week, China's Supreme People's Court commuted her sentence to life in prison. Her apparently impenitent coconspirator, former Vice Premier Zhang Chunqiao, 65, received a similar reprieve. The court's somewhat lame explanation: the criminals had not "resisted reform in a flagrant...