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Tough Laws, Tough Penalties. Despite the horrors terrorists have inflicted on Western Europe, the punishment imposed by courts has been surprisingly light. A Rand Corp. study covering the years 1968 to 1976 indicated that terrorists had an almost 80% chance of evading death or imprisonment for their crimes. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of government at Harvard, believes that terrorists have been let off easier because of the "they're all pampered children of the middle class" theory. He is struck by the fact that so many terrorist acts have taken place in West Germany, Italy and Japan, the three defeated...
...sort of a mini-hydrogen bomb," says Weapons Analyst Samuel T. Cohen of the so-called neutron bomb. Cohen should know. In the late 1950s, as a Rand Corp. consultant to the Air Force, he was the first to draw the military's attention to the possibility of making a new type of nuclear weapon. It would do the bulk of its damage not by heat or concussive force, but by a flood of high-energy subatomic particles called neutrons. Cohen, who has no academic credentials beyond a bachelor's degree from U.C.L.A., wanted to create a relatively...
...will soon have to put down his scalpel because of arthritis in his hands, but he is just warming up as a writer. The co-author of a couple of novels with medical themes, the South African heart surgeon last week began a weekly column for Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. Although he is consigned to the women's pages, Barnard, 55, addressed himself to men. Where, he wonders, do men stand "now that the stronger sex has escaped from the boudoir and the kitchen?" Says he: "The dainty little thing who sets your pulse racing...
...Dave Rand braved both the cross-country and jumping contests, and landed first place in the Nordic combined event...
...Middlebury the following week, the men held on to their Division I status by finished in tenth place, ahead of challenging squads from Division II. Andy Demars, who paced the Nordic skiers with a 24th in cross country, and Dave Rand, who placed third in nordic combined, turned in fine individual performances...