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...goal is a society with fewer criminals, then firm judgments are even harder to draw. Criminology is a dispiriting science. Its practitioners commonly caution that no criminal sanction, no matter how strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says...
...President and his advisers agree that the U.S. should pursue channels to Iran, but cannot sanction further arms sales...
...addition to heading the six-million member Zulu tribe, Buthelezi is the president of Inkatha, said to be South Africa's largest Black political party. He opposes divestment and sanction against the South African government and thinks that the Blacks can use peaceful means to obtain a proportioning of power by all races in his native land...
Mills, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, saw some playing time with semi-pro squads in Europe before coming to Harvard, and had to await NCAA sanction to compete intercollegiately here...
...Amico and Murphy have run unusually bitter campaigns, splitting alliances and endorsements. The governor, despite political ties to both, has admonished them for wrangling, while refusing to grant his sanction to either candidacy...