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...those alleged to be under Soviet control--while quietly applying diplomatic pressure on repressive U.S. allies is an untenable one. An effective human rights policy would utilize completely the opposite tactics, since the U.S. naturally has greater leverage in promoting human rights through open criticism and economic sanction with those nations that are close allies, not with those that are our military and ideological opponents...
...State Department report attributes incidents of political violence to "uncontrolled elements...operating without the sanction of the Government." However, the Argentina regime cannot escape responsibility for such right-wing security forces as long as they continue operating without government efforts to discourage them. The State of Siege, in effect since 1974, continues to be enforced in Argentina, allowing the government arbitrarily to detain people for indefinite periods without due process, and to restrict the exercise of fundamental rights...
...search-and-seizure cases." Wilkey reports that 22% of the criminal cases in his court required analysis of such claims, a process that seriously bogged down the system. Says he: "No other civilized country in the world has a rule excluding relevant material evidence." He contends that the sanction only encourages perjury by police when they testify about the search in question...
...extraordinary step, but stern legal action may have been under consideration for some time. In an interview with TIME for the Feb. 28 cover story on "Royalty vs. the Pursuing Press," the Queen's press secretary Michael Shea said, "We might have to move forward some policy of sanction. The line should be drawn between legitimate public interest, which all members of the royal family recognize, and prurient or highly intrusive following of private lives...
...sense of moral unease with the reaction to the Commission report can only be heightened when the gravity of the crimes committed is measured against the mild recommendations of the Commission. Is the loss of a position within the government truly an adequate sanction for crimes against humanity...