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...LOUIS, Mo.--The FBI arrested three men yesterday accused of a plot to steal a nuclear submarine, kill the crew, put out to sea, sell the submarine, and perhaps fire a nuclear missile at the East Coast...
...across the waters to essentially Catholic Brazil, where "thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish." When, because of the teachings of society or the church, individuals consider it more sinful to practice birth control than to dump young children into the street to steal, prostitute themselves or starve, something has to be wrong...
WEAPONS PROLIFERATION. Antinuclear forces charge that the spread of nuclear plants will accelerate the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly in unstable nations. Opponents are even more concerned that the introduction of breeder reactors, which produce more plutonium than they consume, could make it easier for terrorists to steal fissionable materials for do-it-yourself bombs. Finally, they charge that safeguarding nuclear materials would require the creation of a police state that would also mean the end of civil liberties...
...humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps and welfare...
...terrible snit. The family and us friends are simply telling people that Christina had some business things she needed to take care of before the honeymoon, but frankly, nobody believes this. What we really think is that it suddenly dawned on her that maybe the Russians would try to steal all her boats and in one fell sloop suddenly take over the shipping world. We also think that she had second thoughts about setting up housekeeping in Moscow, in a little flat with his mother, I mean, we couldn't picture Christina washing Sergei's socks and shorts...