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...most fearful consequence could be war. Reckless as it may seem, many Indians are seriously arguing that the only solution to the refugee problem is for the Indian army to drive the West Pakistan army out of East Pakistan so that the refugees could return home...
Rehabilitation. There is less consensus about the role of the victim in rape cases. Some victimologists contend that rape victims invite attack. But Amir believes that fewer than 20% of rapes are precipitated by the woman's being "negligent or reckless or seductive." Philadelphia Psychiatrist Joseph Peters also thinks that the victim of sexual assault is less often at fault than is generally believed. To resolve the controversy, he and his colleagues have just begun a study that calls for exhaustive interviewing of every Philadelphia rape victim over the next four years...
...past, such a cavalier attitude would have been met with helpless resentment, since Florida officials lacked adequate means to control environmental abuses. Now, with tougher laws on the books, environmentalists are aiming their fire at reckless land developers...
...When the record was announced, "it was as if everyone in the assemblage had bellows for lungs. Cheer upon cheer rolled up and was reechoed back from the other side of the Charles River. Hats were tossed high in the air with reckless abandon. None thought or cared what became of them. The crowd had but one thought-to pay homage to one of the greatest performances in the annals of track and field history...
...Talk. Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted. To Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank, the episode is "an object lesson in international astigmatism." At the very least, it questions the assumption that Peking is fundamentally reckless, belligerent and expansionist-the axiom that was used to justify the "containment" policy pursued by the U.S. in Asia for 20 years. In fact, serious China watchers have long regarded Peking as extremely cautious in its foreign policy decisions...