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...Cicero if I have to. But I'm not gonna burn a cross or reach for my rifle We've come too far for that in this country." That is a slight but hopeful recognition in a town that has clearly not come far enough.-By Kurt Andersen. Reported Lee Griggs and Don Winbush/Cicero
...Nitze is finally forced out of government, he will surely prefer to go discreetly, ever the gentleman policymaker. Says Nitze: "There's been entirely too much fuss made over problems here on the Washington scene." The fuss and the problems are surely not over yet. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
...Andersen's most recent cover story was on prisons (TIME, Sept. 13). In preparation, he visited five jails around the country and absorbed "a palpable sense of the daily interminable monotony of living in prison, with the constant risk of being killed by fellow inmates." His assumptions about those he met were frequently challenged by the hard facts: "I would talk to some very sweet, kind-looking woman," he recalls, "and afterward would learn from the warden that she had killed every member of her family." He still exchanges letters with some prisoners. For this week's cover...
...simple instrument of death," Wilde recalls. "It was more comfortable than I had expected, but very eerie and very chilling nonetheless " Wilde's memorable account of what it is like to be strapped into an electric chair appears on the cover and serves as an introduction to Andersen's story...
...Kurt Andersen...