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...human being is a solution to any problem is deeply uncivilized." Executing murderers does not demonstrate resolute regard for the sanctity of victims' lives. "The marginally demented guy," says Schwarzschild, sees an execution as a prescription, not a threat. "He thinks, 'If the state has a quarrel with Gary Gilmore, it kills him. Then if I have a quarrel with someone, I'll kill him.' We say we think human life is sacred. And then to prove that, we kill somebody. That's crazy...
Speakes rejected that characterization that Rostow was find but said he did not quarrel with Rostow's description of events. As for Starr It was apparent to him we would like him to resign Speakes said...
...French-American pique was minor compared with the fury the sanctions had aroused within the alliance. The value of getting rid of them was quickly demonstrated when Kohl arrived in Washington. Freed of any need to quarrel about the pipeline, Kohl and Reagan, both conservatives, agreed about everything they discussed. Kohl pledged support for Reagan's proposals on nuclear-arms reduction, and for the stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting...
...other important foreign policy problem inherited by Andropov is the Soviet Union's deep, longstanding quarrel with China. In the months before his death, Brezhnev made several speeches that signaled a willingness to reduce tension, but neither country is under any illusion that a breakthrough will be possible on major points of contention...
...matter of foreign policy. I would presume it's more a matter of implementation thereof. We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights. In your financing institutions, the instructions under President Carter were either to vote against Philippine projects or to cast a neutral vote on the ground that we had violated human rights. Many projects had to be delayed. Some of those projects [approved only recently] had been pending for ten or 15 years...