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...strategy of combatting Soviet expansionism is at least a debatable option for U.S. foreign policy. But any policy that is concealed from Congress and much of the Government always runs the risk of conferring enormous power on individuals who may abuse it or confuse it with their own reckless or over-zealous imperatives. That is just what happened in the case of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. He wound up disastrously damaging the very causes he worked so fervently to promote...
...became the "world' s most powerful lieutenant colonel" and a central figure in covert operations that in turn were a keystone of the Reagan Doctrine. -- On his route from all- American boy to reckless zealot, he always seemed to be the hero of his own movie. -- A look at Ollie' s army and his oddly assorted collection of private operators. See NATION...
...terror of the '80s: in Minneapolis a 29-year-old male prostitute who had known for at least two years that he had been infected with the AIDS virus continued to have sexual relations with his clients, mostly married bisexual men. Today fear of such reckless behavior is driving many states -- Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina and Hawaii among them -- to consider drastic solutions: temporary detention, forced isolation, even jail for so- called recalcitrant carriers. It is not an idle threat. Last month in Pensacola, Fla., a judge ordered a 14-year-old infected with the virus locked...
...added to the traditional elements of libel -- falsity and damage to reputation -- a third factor involving the journalist's state of mind: "actual malice." In order to prevail in court, public officials would have to show that a reporter knew the story to be false or showed "reckless disregard of whether it was false." That provision turned out to have some unforeseen negative consequences for media defendants. It has allowed plaintiffs to review journalists' notes, internal memorandums, video-tape outtakes and other raw materials in an effort to reconstruct the entire reporting-and-editing process, adding greatly to the length...
...Lebanon four years ago and woke up one morning to find that the U.S. had "redeployed" its Marine force to the Mediterranean and left the French high and dry. They have learned that American ambivalence about the use of force abroad is such that it is unwise, indeed reckless, for any ally to risk a joint venture with...