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...years, concluded that "there is no clear evidence of any influence of the death penalty on the homicide rates." In retorting to the arguments of law-enforcement authorities that the death penalty is needed to keep criminals from killing policemen, abolitionists point to the University of Pennsylvania Criminologist Thorsten Sellin's massive study of fatal attacks on policemen in some 260 Northern U.S. cities. By Sellin's mathematics, the rate of such attacks was slightly higher in death-penalty states than in abolition states...
Argument Won. At the hearings, the State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, who helped negotiate the original agreement, tried to justify the deal. He said that the routes were necessary to keep West Germany from restricting U.S. airlines, and to win the right for U.S. lines to carry passengers from Germany around the world. Said Kalijarvi: "The [U.S.] airlines are their own worst enemy. They can't act like this and achieve order in the international airlines business. The Germans are going to have one of the world's biggest airlines, and they will...