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...Harvard earlier this semester. The irony of his attack on relativism is that he encourages us to ignore morality. For him, every demand from a minority group is an attempt to seek power. He refuses to accept that it might be a request for compassion, and beyond that, a plea for self-assessment...
Many lawyers contend that the rules may sharply limit plea bargaining after indictments, thus crowding court calendars. The crunch behind bars is expected to get worse. The 50,000 inmates jamming federal penitentiaries are already 60% more than capacity. "We're going to see dramatic increases in prison terms and prison overcrowding," predicts Sam Buffone, chairman of an American Bar Association committee on the sentencing system...
...facing charges of sexually assaulting a co-worker in Holyoke Center has no plans to enter a plea bargain agreement with the state, his lawyer said yesterday...
That is a plea the U.S. should take seriously, by easing restrictions on the export of industrial technology to the Soviets. Unfortunately, the biggest barrier to such shipments is not export controls but the lack of hard currency. The U.S. cannot finance the Soviet drive to conserve energy and control pollution, but America should offer as much technical assistance as possible. The Soviets seem to be sincerely determined to clean up their act, and the U.S. should help...
Sweden's Andersson and Egypt's Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid told Shultz they still had a shot at persuading Arafat to take the required extra steps. In Geneva, Abdel-Meguid carried his plea personally to Arafat when the two dined together on Tuesday night. In Geneva, U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters was asked by Momammad Said, a Palestinian-American adviser to Arafat, what Arafat must do to satisfy the U.S. "Just tell him to say in public what he said in private," replied Walters. Said passed this along. Andersson resumed his delicate persuasion, meeting twice with Arafat. The Arab moderates...