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...Armed Services Committee held its first round of public hearings on the ban. As with most service personnel, the members of the Senate committee -- who seemed more inclined to lecture than listen -- have long since made up their minds. Although committee chairman Sam Nunn has been one of the harshest critics of Clinton's proposal, he clearly hopes to find a middle ground that won't leave the military badly divided. The word around the Capitol is that after a spring of hearings, the end result will be the compromise imposed -- and hailed again by Nunn last week -- of simply...
Still, the collection of print journalist saved their harshest words for television and radio...
...that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea bargain by implicitly calling for the harshest possible sentence...
...years ago, such sympathy would have been unheard of. Children who killed their parents were the ultimate pariahs. Regarded as evil or mentally ill "bad seeds," they virtually always earned the harshest judgment of the public and the courts. Says psychologist and attorney Charles Patrick Ewing of the State University of New York at Buffalo: "We take the commandment to 'honor thy father and thy mother' very seriously. The implication is that you're supposed to honor your parents even if they abuse...
Businessmen hail him as the leader best equipped to guarantee political and economic stability, but critics claim that as former commander of the armed forces, he was at least indirectly responsible for fissures within the military. Ramos' harshest critics are the victims of the Marcos martial-law government. Their accusations of torture and harassment at military hands dogged Ramos throughout the campaign. He portrayed himself as one of the few officers who were able to intervene with Marcos to cut prisoners' sentences. Among the beneficiaries of his intervention was Benigno Aquino, the outgoing President's late husband, who spent...