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...T.N.F. modernization would proceed only on the condition that the U.S. would begin negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. These talks are scheduled to begin later this year. Says Denis Healey, deputy leader of the British Labor Party: "The neutron decision will inflict severe damage on the Atlantic Alliance just when its cohesion is dangerously threatened by the argument over deployment of the cruise and Pershing II missiles...
...those who can inflict the most," said MacSwiney, "but those who can suffer the most who will conquer." British authorities, for their part, are convinced the Irish cannot continue indefinitely to sacrifice their young. "They just can't keep it up," says Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a man who sounds as dogged as the H-blockers...
...proposed code is based on a principle of retribution. A murder victim's relatives could kill the murderer after obtaining permission from a religious judge. In case of mayhem, the victim could inflict on his assailant a comparable injury, which must be exactly similar in "width and length" to the original wound. The code covers a number of contingencies: "For the severance of a right hand, the assailant's right hand must be severed. If the assailant does not have a right hand, his left hand may be severed. If he does not have a left hand either...
Half a century ago, the Republic of Argentina was one of the most promising countries in the West. In the past two generations, behind a façade of "European" style, the country has degenerated into narcissism. Where some countries have aspirations, the Argentines have dreams. These they inflict upon each other in spasms of nationalism, socialism, Peronism, fascism and pure terrorism. As Jacobo Timerman points out in this harrowing account, violence amounts to a national characteristic in Argentina today...
...defy those people who oppose handgun control to point to any other weapon that can inflict such lethal damage from a distance and, at the same time, can be so easily concealed. To suggest that a knife or a club could accomplish what a handgun can is nonsense...