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...housewives than a team of killers for the Nazi cause. They were criminals all the same, maintained Munich State Attorney Manfred Bode, and they were charged with more than 800 deaths. Between 1942 and 1945, these 14 "angels of death" had worked as nurses at the Obrawalde insane asylum in Brandenburg, where, under Adolf Hitler's "euthanasia" program, more than 8,000 physical and mental "defectives" were put to death...
When he walks across the yard at San Quentin prison, inmates line up to shake his hand. He has interviewed pickpockets, prostitutes and crooks on TV; once an escaped mental-asylum patient barged into the studio and unburdened himself over the air. It has become something of a local practice for fugitives from justice to surrender to Coates...
...later, when Malcolm was six, his father was run over by a streetcar, his body cut almost in half. Police called it an accident, but Malcolm insisted that his father had been bludgeoned by whites and placed across the tracks. Soon afterward his mother was committed to a mental asylum in Michigan...
...army. The insurgent White Flag Communists, after some inner dissension, came out for Peking, while the above-ground United Workers' Party backed Moscow. The Red Flag Communists are a Trotskyite rebel group that seem moribund. Peking may not supply arms to the White Flag Communists, but it gives asylum to their leaders. When General Ne Win held 1963 peace talks with the rebel Reds, several of their chiefs arrived in Rangoon via a Red Chinese plane from Peking...
Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...