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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 8, 1985
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"correctional institutions," the society has lost its bearings.
If prisoners are "corrected," that is nice but it is an ancillary
outcome.
The February 8 issue of NATIONAL REVIEW had a couple of news snippets in its
"The Week" column, which compared the remarkably different approaches to
law and justice in the People's Republic of China to that of the United
States:
The Chinese claim great success for a decidedly nonliberal anti
crime campaign begun last year. Crime rates "plunged," says Pek
ing, after more than five thousand criminals were shot. "It is
good to have some people executed," says an official communi-
que••••
In 1983 (the last year for which there are figures) there were
five executions and 19,308 murders [ in the U.s. ]. Guess which
statistic prompted Tom Wicker [ liberal columnist of the NEW YORK
TIMES] to employ the word "bloodbath." .
Correction
Finally, a correction and an addendum to last week's "Chunnel" story. To
set the record straight, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and
French President Francois Mitterrand authorized detailed studies of a chan
nel link at their summit conference in France at the end of November 1984,
not "late last spring" as stated in a parenthetical insert in a TIMES of
London article. In addition, the cost of a transchannel link is estimated
to be $3.3 billion.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau