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...opinion on the ABM treaty is particularly vulnerable. Sofaer queried nobody from the original negotiating team except Paul Nitze, the President's special adviser on arms control. A recognized authority on the pact, Nitze supported Sofaer's conclusion that the agreement did not forbid research and testing of "exotic" weapons such as lasers and particle beams. Senators savaged Sofaer for relying heavily on the negotiating record, ignoring assurances made to the Senate during ratification. Special irritation was reserved for the way Sofaer quoted documents and sources out of context. In a courtroom, says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, such sleight...
...Israel, a close U.S. ally, was fundamentally different from spying for, say, the Soviet Union and that nobody could prove Pollard's actions had actually harmed his country. The prosecution took a dim view of that argument. Explains John Martin, the Justice Department's chief of internal security: "God forbid that the day should come when we would have the burden of showing that not only did a spy give up information on nuclear weapons but that those weapons were used under hostile conditions...
Kevin M. Malisani's March 8 opinion piece, "Coping with the Conservative Club," is a classic example of the intolerant complacency of Harvard's Liberal Establishment. Time and again Harvard liberals have shown the entire world that they're quite happy debating among themselves--but Heaven forbid that somebody speak out and challenge their views! The problem does not lie with the speakers that come to Harvard, but with the audience that they find here...
...daytime. There is a half-ration of food every other day." The cells were bitterly cold in winter. Begun estimated that he spent 200 days in punishment cells. "They punished politicals very severely. Wearing a yarmulke or an unbuttoned collar could get 15 days in punishment cells. They forbid everything because they fear everything...
Within the Evangelical, or Low Church branch of the Church of England, some biblical literalists oppose women clergy because of the belief that the Scriptures forbid women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from...