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...Torture, exile under brutal conditions, harsh emigration restrictions, disappearances and other abuses are reprehensible whether committed by friend, foe or neutral." I also said that human freedom and dignity today are most seriously violated by the Soviet Union...
...little harsh, but that is the outcry of the passionate and deprived. The strike rudely interrupted a cherished American routine. Bernard Malamud once said, "The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology." The strike especially offends Americans because it has subverted that sense of the mythic; the strike has kicked the mystique of baseball in the pants and coarsely brought into unavoidable view things Americans try to ignore about corporate baseball: its pinky-ring crassness, its carnivorous commercialism, its obsession with the megabucks to be wrung from the lovely game...
Peres responded with some harsh words of his own, calling Begin "a danger to democracy" and implying analogies between "Beginism" and "fascism," a word with particularly bitter connotations in Israel. Said Peres: "He wants to set up a regime that will have us all afraid." After Labor began running campaign films of the violence, spliced with Begin's inflammatory rhetoric, the Prime Minister asked his supporters to abandon such disruptive tactics at political rallies...
Wrote Justice Lewis Powell for the majority: "To the extent that [prison] conditions are restrictive and even harsh, they are part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society." Such conditions would be cruel and unusual, Powell went on, only if they inflicted "unnecessary or wanton pain" or were "grossly disproportionate" to the severity of the inmates' crimes...
...great unknowns now hanging over the European economies is the future of French business after the election of Mitterrand. Board members generally doubted that the new French President would rush to fulfill his socialist program. The harsh reality of trying to run a fragile economy will be very sobering. Said Tumlir: "We are gradually emerging from a silly political season to some better understanding of the political conditions necessary for economic prosperity. Recovery always begins with a hangover." Even Italian Communists, said Giersch, are coming to the conclusion that it is "medium-size private enterprise that is really doing...