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...laudable desire of the courts to protect the rights of suspected criminals has long been a sore point with victims of crime, who complain that no such solicitude has been extended to them. Today organizations supporting victims' rights are sprouting up across the country. More than 400 victims advocacy groups have been set up to advise those who have been hurt by crime and to seek legislation to help them. In most states victims, like other witnesses, are frequently barred from the courtroom to prevent their testimony from being influenced by the proceedings. This "witness sequestration" rule, says Florida State...
Reagan repaid Mulroney's hospitality in another way by offering the Prime Minister a sop on acid-rain pollution, which has long been a sore spot in U.S.-Canadian relations. Canadians charge that at least half the acid rain currently damaging their forests and destroying aquatic life in their lakes is caused by sulfur and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere by fossil- fuel-burning plants and smelters in the U.S. The Reagan Administration has maintained that the evidence against U.S. industry is incomplete...
...unhappiness in the Camarena affair inflamed another increasingly sore point in bilateral relations, the safety of ordinary Americans south of the border. Mexico's declining peso has made the country an even more attractive vacation spot than usual for U.S. tourists; last year 4.1 million Americans paid a visit, a 32% increase over 1983. But Mexico's economic woes have also made those tourists attractive targets for criminals. Last year there were 627 reported incidents of violent crime against American visitors. Four Americans were murdered, and four were raped. In the vicinity of Guadalajara and the resort town of Puerto...
...last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
When the dust settled 40 minutes later, the sophomore guard had a career-high 21 points, the small but vocal Harvard contingent had sore throats, and the visitors had the victory...