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...problems. Any real worsening of the oil situation in Europe and Japan, where we have mutual defense commitments on top of otherwise close and important relationships, would have to affect us... we recognize the mutuality of our interests in seeking to assure against an energy crisis that could harm...
Thus "war crimes" are violations of specific?and fragile?taboos. Though a soldier may kill any enemy civilian who seeks to attack him, for example, he may not deliberately harm those who do not. The rules protect defeated enemy troops, the wounded, parachuting airmen and other helpless people. Forbidden weapons include dumdum bullets and poison. Forbidden targets include hospitals, churches, museums and coastal fishing boats unless used for military purposes. Torture, looting and political assassinations are banned. Reprisals are permitted against illegal enemy acts, but only on orders from top commanders and never against civilians, who may not be punished...
...According to the majority report, pornography cannot be proved to cause crime, sexual deviancy or severe emotional disturbances. This is a conclusion somewhat at odds with that reached by the national Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, whose behavioral studies indicated that exposure to violence does cause harm. The violence commission therefore recommended more restraint, while the pornography commission recommended less...
...studies "unexceptionable within their limited framework." But, he said, "one cannot simulate in the laboratory the existence or nonexistence of a lifelong exposure to or preoccupation with obscenity, any more than one can simulate a lifelong exposure to racist or radical opinions." His major thesis is that proof of harm is largely beside the point. Even if behavioral studies could not prove that individual Negroes are harmed by being denied access to public facilities, reasons Wilson, he would still want them to have that access. Violence and obscenity are moral issues, he believes, and judgments about them must rest...
...became the focus of the rising public resistance against products that might harm the environment and against the expenditure of vast sums to bankroll "progress" that could be enjoyed only by the well off. Consumer activists have attacked products of industries as varied as autos and food. Yet no industry has been affected quite so dramatically as aerospace...