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...self-declared killer's calm demeanor in court was evidently due, at least in part, to a religious conversion that he underwent while in custody. He had been visited in prison, at the behest of one court-appointed psychiatrist, by a Pentecostalist known as "Sister Smith"-Ollie Smith, 58, a beautician who serves part time as a volunteer prison worker. According to in camera testimony obtained by the New York Daily News, the psychiatrist described Berkowitz as "ecstatic, radiant, quoting Scripture right and left" after their talks. He also said that Berkowitz saw the guilty plea...
...Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab, the fiery leader of a puritanical Islamic movement; his Wahhabi sect still holds sway in Saudi Arabia. This combination of tribal military skill and religious fanaticism did dominate central Arabia for 75 years, until it was crushed by an invading Egyptian army acting at the behest of the Ottoman rulers in Constantinople...
...that his country would not become further isolated and its white population more deeply antagonized. Qoboza, whose crusading black-oriented daily The World was suppressed at the time of his arrest, is now editor of a new journal, the Johannesburg Post. Last week, at TIME's behest, he offered this view of what the U.S. can and should do about South Africa today...
Trudeau in 1952, at the behest of their mutual friend, Gerard Pelletier, in an encounter that set the tone for most of their future dealings. "You speak well," said Trudeau brusquely, "but can you write?" Trudeau then reminded the startled journalist that Lévesque was two years overdue on a promised contribution to Cite Libre...
...sizable slice of the population they will not even do that for long. The principal reason is that Social Security taxes are rising this year, and will jump much more sharply in 1979 and later years under a law that Congress passed in December at Carter's behest...