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...lenient treatment at the hands of Italian authorities contrasts sharply with that of U.S. Actor William Berger (TIME, April 5), who was held for almost eight months before trial after Italian police raided a party at his rented villa and found nine-tenths of one gram of marijuana. He was acquitted, but his wife, who was also held-though never charged -in connection with the case, died in prison...
...notorious case of U.S. Actor William Berger, 42, which has created a furor over Italy's undiscriminating narcotics laws and the country's faulty legal machinery (TIME, April 5), finally came to an end last week in a Salerno courtroom. Eight months ago, in a search for drugs along the Amalfi coast, Italian police entered Berger's rented villa while he was entertaining dinner guests and found marijuana (nine-tenths of one gram) in a snuff box, less than enough for one joint. That was more than enough for them to arrest Berger, his wife Carol...
What followed, however, was altogether too much. Berger's friends were told to leave the country. His wife died in a hospital, after surgery, of bronchial pneumonia leading to cardiac collapse. She had been under guard for nine weeks, although no charges were brought against her, and Berger suspects that better medical attention might have saved her. Last week, after his own long incarceration without bail, Berger was acquitted of the charge of possession of the drug because there was no evidence that it belonged to him. He was also cleared of having allowed his villa "Casa Degli Angeli...
Following his release from purgatory, Berger displayed the same fatalistic calm he showed during his long detention. "I don't understand why Carol had to die," he said quietly. "But if she had to die, why that way? The doctors, the priests, the policemen, the guards, they are all nice people. I haven't found any devils. They are all nice people, but they acted differently because of the rules, because of pieces of paper...
Little Big Man. Arthur Penn's latest film may well be his best. Scripted by Galder Willingham from Thomas Berger's novel, it spans the 121-year life of Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) to arrive at a truly epic vision of what the American experience is all about. As in Bonnie and Clyde and Alice's Restaurant, Penn's hero searches painfully for a way of life that will bring order and meaning to human existence. Crabb tries everything; he becomes an Indian, a white man, a con man, a drunk, a husband, a gun man, a resident...