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Analysts say that a short walkout will probably cause only limited harm but a prolonged one may be devastating. Observes David Healy of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "I don't think the strike threatens Chrysler's survival. It is beginning as a nuisance, but it could be severely disruptive if it continues." The financially fragile company can survive a skid, in other words, if not a total spin...
...slogan, cut-to-measure mythos and even the name of the 1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past Malaya...
King will also lobby for laws forcing certain juvenile criminals to be tried as adults, increasing criminal penalties for those who harm the elderly, and implementing "determinate sentencing" that would automatically set a range of penalties for certain offenses...
...biblical vision of peace to reach its clear theme: "We must continually say no to the idea of nuclear war." It also draws on the theological theory of a "just war," first propounded in the 5th century by St. Augustine, who justified force to restrain those who would harm the innocent. Since Vatican II, some Catholics have rejected the just-war theory in favor of a pacifist option. But ironically, many of the more activist priests, who have supported revolutionary struggles in the Third World, advocate extending the theory by loosening the traditional restriction that just wars can be waged...
...parliament, for more than a decade, but none has ever made it out of committee. The Roman Catholic Church has opposed the idea for fear it would be abused for political, anti-religious or personal purposes. The Academy of Sciences has argued that forcing goldbrickers into factory jobs would harm the economy...