Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With regard to the TIME Essay, "The Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual?" [Jan. 24], the main reason for imprisonment is the protection of law-abiding citizens and numberless future victims. It follows that as long as a life sentence means only a few years in jail before parole, as long as prisons are not secure and convicts can escape from them or continue from there to mastermind killings, as long as prisons do not rehabilitate, the death penalty should not be abolished. However, such a penalty should be used very sparingly and only in clear-cut cases of mass killings...
...have undoubtedly reported the most important single discovery of the decade in your Environment story on the study of the limits to growth [Jan. 24]. The Club of Rome and the 33 greats of England know who our enemy is, and even how he can be beaten...
...last week, for example, it exempted nonprofit private schools from adhering to the guidelines for tuition and room-and-board charges. There are no effective limits on many other costs, including local taxes, used-car prices and utility rates. Says a construction worker in New York City, where since Jan. 1 telephone rates have gone up 9%, subway fares 17% and state income taxes 2.5%: "The stores might as well forget about price controls. The way things are going, we're not going to have enough money left to buy anything anyway...
...presented such a progressive front at the Second Vatican Council, have suffered another breach in their ranks. A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative into the Dutch hierarchy by appointing Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam, ignoring the nominations of the diocesan chapter (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). Now he has named Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, a friend of Simonis and heretofore the rector of an old-age home in a tiny village, to the southern Netherlands diocese of Roermond. As with the Simonis appointment, critics noted, the Pope overlooked the recommendations of the chapter. Paul...
...seat on the Cost of Living Council and most other jobs concerning the domestic economy. That will undoubtedly please Ralph Nader, with whom Flanigan has clashed repeatedly. Besides overseeing the comprehensive trade policy drafted by Peterson, which could well lead to a "Nixon Round" of tariff-cutting negotiations (TIME, Jan. 24), Flanigan will continue to be a contact man between businessmen and federal agencies on some key issues. These include the possibility of relaxing antitrust laws in an effort to give U.S. multinational corporations the same kind of backing abroad that many Japanese and Common Market firms receive from their...