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...moderate" Saudi Arabia because of the threat to the Middle East from the Soviet Union. No, say the Saudis, the threat is Israel, not the Soviet Union [May 4]. So the U.S. supplies the most modern advanced weapons and planes to satisfy the Saudis-even at the mortal peril of Israel...
...Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...
...ever-present threat of assassination is "part of the job-the peril of the profession, if you will," said Ford. "There's no way you can get 100% security unless you sit in the White House immunized. But you can't isolate yourself. The job entails certain responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is moving around seeing people and appearing in public...
...satellite relay. As the tape was replayed, run through in slow-motion and held in stop action, viewers became almost numbed by what they saw. In many instances they were informed of breaking events mere seconds after anchormen. The adventure of live transmission was not, however, without its peril. Information was constantly being contradicted by new information. Most regrettably, all three networks broke the news that James Brady had died, only to reverse themselves minutes later to report that he was alive but in critical condition. As the story unfolded with all its fits and starts, American viewers caught...
...past 35 years, every advance in weaponry by the U.S. has caused the Soviet Union to follow suit. Then the hawks cry, "They are trying to pass us! More arms!" So the peril of annihilation escalates and security diminishes. We should be negotiating disarmament, not finding excuses for further delay...