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...task force so far or to fight for such principles as self-determination and nonuse of force. Once the reality of British determination dawned on them, Galtieri and the other-ranking officers apparently decided that a fight to the finish-even a surrender-would be more honorable and politically safer for the junta than a humiliating compromise...
...Getting at the root causes," admirable though such a goal may be, does not make the streets safer today or tomorrow, and because crime rates so highly among American concerns, it is the responsibility of public servants to address the issue--now. Of course short-term solutions will not succeed entirely--will not "get at the root causes"--but they can succeed in part, and that in itself is a worthy goal...
...have not yet been accused of any of the dire misdeeds that liberals fear and police apparently would love to reveal. The Angels--at least so far--obey the law. And though it is difficult to prove, they seem to deter crime and make the citizens around them feel safer...
Reruns are sustained commercially by an audience of adults as well as curious children. Some of the audience's affection is only for the familiar. But some, plainly, is for a world that seemed simpler and safer-if not always in reality, then at least in the idealized views of TV programmers of the day. It is probably no accident that the Christian Broadcasting Network's over-the-air and cable services rely heavily on wholly secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about...
...meant to "imply that nuclear war was anything less than a terrible disaster." He left it to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle to defend the Administration's seven-year, $4.2 billion civil defense plan, which calls for evacuating people from 380 high-risk centers to presumably safer nonurban "host areas." But the Armed Services Committee agreed, on a voice vote last week, to cut the proposed 80% increase in civil defense funds to a 5% increase...