Conor Cruise O'Brien, in National Review (Apr. 26,1993), 150 E. 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.
During more than two decades of terrorism in, and from, Northern Ireland, the prevailing po- litical wisdom has been that patient negotia- tions will eventually lead to a general solution, which will then isolate the terrorists and ren- der them harmless. This approach-exempli- fied the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985- has failed, Irish historian and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien argues. It is time,...
Shlomo Avineri, in The Brookings Review (Spring 1993), 1775 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The end of the Cold War has transformed poli- tics in the Middle East. The radical Arab forces have lost their Soviet patron, and the Israelis feel less threatened. But a second, less obvious con- sequence of the Soviet empire's collapse is also making for greater stability in the region, accord- ing to Avineri, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This development is the reforging of cultural...
Yale sociologist Albert J. Reiss, Jr., concludes that efforts to pre-vent crime eventually may prove as valuable as police work, pros- ecutions, and prisons.
Gun control is one often-de- bated crime-preventionmeasure. Research has not shown any link between the availability of guns and the number of violent inci- dents or injuries, the panel says. But since ps tend to be more lethal thaiother weapons, keep- ing them out of the hands of unsupervised juveniles and out of homes with histories of family...
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