Word: arlen
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Here are two of the nation's more stylish and intelligent white writers bringing back the Black Panthers for postmortems. Michael Arlen examines the 1969 raid in which 14 heavily armed Chicago plainclothesmen broke into a Panther headquarters and killed Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Murray Kempton recapitulates the trial of the 21 Panthers who allegedly conspired to murder policemen and blow up New York department stores. In each case, the author's sympathies are pointedly with the Panthers...
...mystery is why both books should be so disappointing. As a television watcher for The New Yorker during the worst of the Viet Nam War, Arlen wrote a mordantly brilliant series of essays that have been collected in The Living Room War. His second book was Exiles, a precise and lovely memoir of his parents. But An American Verdict seems oddly negligent...
...highest bench in which he contends that the U.S. Supreme Court decision really meant not the end of capital punishment but (in Delaware anyway) that it must now be imposed invariably for designated capital crimes. Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected an effort by Philadelphia Prosecutor Arlen Specter and his assistant Richard Sprague to show that the state's death penalty has not in fact been imposed arbitrarily. Sprague, who is one of the nation's most fervent supporters of capital punishment and is prosecuting the Yablonski mine union murder cases (TIME, July 17), based his argument...
Attorney General Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, in his brief, requested the opportunity to argue on the issue of the death penalty's constitutionality as applied in his state...
...Sprague is one of the most effective prosecutors in the nation. A short, intense man with sad, hound-dog eyes, he acts as the executive officer directly under the elected district attorney, Arlen Specter. Specter sets the guidelines and runs the politics. Sprague gets the convictions-from murder to petty bribery. "He is seething with righteous indignation," says one judge who has handled Sprague's cases. "Some men are like a tiger. Dick Sprague is like a whole cage full of tigers-leashed and caged, thank God. But you can feel the power that's there...