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Perturbation-Proof. Avtorkhanov's book may tempt some readers to conclude that Communism carries the seeds of its own failure. The author acknowl edges that Russia has flopped as an industrialist (half the state enterprises are run at a loss), as. a farmer, even as a seminal example to other Communist states. Writes Avtorkhanov of the deepening schism between Moscow and Peking: "The contradictions are so deep that in perspective they make war between these two Communist states, if not unavoidable, at least fully possible...
...country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have come to make an attempt - a new at tempt - to make these symbols of op pression disappear from the life of the Dominican people...
...accused person pending grand-jury action. Most of them can try petty cases and mete out sentences up to six months. Yet 30% of the commissioners are not lawyers; all are paid only by fees (annual maximum: $10,500) that impoverish the able, particularly among fulltime commissioners, and tempt the greedy to issue shaky warrants. The system is now under fire in Congress...
...Corps will also probably qualify its members for Selective Service deferment, and this will tempt critics of deferable programs to believe that students are joining the Corps to avoid the draft. This criticism will probably be more valid this year than next year when the Corps can start recruitment earlier and have a wider range of applicants to select from. As it is now, applications...
Even worse is the dilemma of whether to give sound legal advice that may well tempt the defendant to give false testimony. When the accused confides his guilt in the 1959 bestseller Anatomy of a Murder, for example, his lawyer replies: "If the facts are as you have stated them so far, you have no defense, and you will be most likely electrocuted. On the other hand, if you acted in a blind rage, there is a possibility of saving your life. Think it over, and we will talk about it tomorrow." Is this unethical? Even though perjury may result...