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...make it sound as though the 1,100 inmates on death row are there for a petty offense like shoplifting. They are in prison for murder. Society would be much safer if these prisoners were put to death...
...Even safer were the lawmakers who pushed last week for both a 5? increase in the gasoline tax to fund a highway and mass-transit rebuilding program, which had bipartisan backing, and a larger public works bill proposed by Democrats. The poll shows that 30% of Americans want only the highway-transit program, while 40% want both the road repairs and a larger jobs-creation program. One-fourth of the respondents rejected both of the proposals, while 5% cannot decide...
...Whether he goes for quick fixes and gimmicks or more genuine reforms and progress, Andropov needs to get his relationship with the U.S. on some steadier, safer basis. He needs a deal that will reduce international tensions and enable him to keep his military expenditures within bearable limits...
Between 1927 and 1937, Morse established some 30 churches and baptized 2,000 converts. Evacuated to Burma again during World War II, Morse advised the Allies to use a different and safer air route to fly the "Hump" over the Himalayas to Kunming. Meanwhile, young Robert organized tribes to assist airmen who crashed. The family returned to China for a third postwar tour; Eugene was imprisoned briefly in 1949, after the Communists seized power, and his father was held in solitary confinement and tortured for more than 15 months. The family remained undaunted. Says Robert...
Only in the face of an unexpected anti-Semitism--such as Cowan's Choate years--does the Jewish heritage begin to beckon as a safer and more honest haven. Cowan's mother often told him to learn a trade as well as a profession so that, if he were forced to flee in a foreign land, he could always support himself without knowing the language. Though Cowan never needed the safeguard, the warning stuck in his mind, controlling the odyssey that followed...