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In fact, Meese's statements constitute far more than the incoherent ramblings of a narrow-minded ideologue, since they typify a broad repressive trend within the criminal justice system. Increasingly, this attitude has characterized a significant proportion of the people in positions to convict criminals, sentence them, strike down their...
For his part, Frazier is the kind of guy who could, within weeks of New York - City's 1977 power blackout, come up with A Good Explanation, a minute-by- minute recounting of how things might have gone wrong. Sample entry: "8:57 p.m. Every person in Queens between the...
It is also the beginning of the end for Fleet Street as the 200-year-old center of the British newspaper industry. Robert Maxwell, the mercurial publisher of the leftish Daily Mirror (circ. 3 million), plans to follow Murdoch to the east London docklands area by 1987. He has already...
The first signs of serious military dissatisfaction came only twelve months ago. The military promotion system, charged a report circulated anonymously by alumni of the Philippine Military Academy, "rewards boot-licking incompetence and banishes independent-minded professionals and achievers." At academy homecoming ceremonies a month later, 300 alumni from the...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now...