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...pollsters did not ask why Californians are becoming tougher on this issue. Some researchers speculate that people are getting fed up with such spectacular crimes as skyjacking and Manson-style mass murder. On a more personal level, more and more people are becoming the victims of street muggings and assaults. Although Californians do not demand the death penalty for these offenses, such violent criminal episodes perhaps promote a psychology of implacability and, at least in theory, a taste for social vengeance...
...other hand, more and more countries are becoming tougher in dealing with terrorists. In the past three years, Brazil's military rulers have flown some 130 jailed leftists out of the country in order to free four kidnaped diplomats (one of them an American). Now, Brazilian officials suggest that they will not be so quick to open the prison gates the next time terrorists grab a foreign diplomat. In the wake of Munich, angry Washington officials were saying that "the U.S. view is now close to that of the Israelis." In a flurry of announcements, the Administration promised special...
...aspects of Black September is its ability to export terror. "They will hit anything anywhere if they believe the target is sensitive," says a fedayeen leader. Septembrists, moreover, take pains to point out that "anywhere" includes the U.S. More than that, Black September's planners and operatives are tougher and smarter than guerrillas have generally been in the past. They are frequently the products of the refugee camps in Jordan and Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians still live-and teach their children to hate Israel. Many went to the American University of Beirut and some...
...skyjacking have increased to the point that airline business is suffering. Last week two of the companies, TWA and American, announced that they will begin the searching of all the carry-on luggage of passengers boarding each of their flights. The drive to keep guns off aircraft is getting tougher-and it does not seem to matter who is carrying them...
...smaller company-though size in this league is strictly relative; Xerox's 1971 sales of nearly $2 billion and profit of $213 million would compare favorably with almost anything except IBM's figures of $8.3 billion gross and $1.1 billion net. Xerox also confronts a tougher technical and financial challenge. Computer technology is much more sophisticated than copier-making expertise, and computer manufacturing is vastly more expensive. Moreover, most computers are leased to customers rather than sold, and it takes a long time for the manufacturer to recover in rentals the cost of making and installing the machines...