Word: brotherism
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...nation on the edge of war and a boy approaching adolescence, but he is too cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book...
...supposed to have been a minor figure in the notorious family spy ring. Nonetheless, in Norfolk last week Federal Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. threw the book at him: three life sentences plus 40 years, to run concurrently, for passing two classified documents dealing with Navy ships to his brother John for transmission to the Soviets. Clarke also fined Walker $250,000, to guarantee that he will not profit by selling his story of espionage (there have been rumors of such a deal). John, 48, the acknowledged head of the ring, earlier had drawn a single life sentence...
...justification for leniency in sentencing Arthur. Prosecutor Tommy Miller hinted that the retired Navy lieutenant commander had been engaged in the family spy business longer and more deeply than he had admitted. (One revelation at Arthur's sentencing was that he had had an affair with his brother's wife Barbara.) Said Miller: "We have gotten a confession, but we have not gotten the whole truth." WASHINGTON The Empire Strikes...
...body of his landlady, who had died, Gómez said, "about an hour ago." It took three hours to rescue the man. As volunteers scooped frantically at the mud, Gómez explained that one of the earlier discoverers who had wandered away from him was his brother. Said Gómez: "He lost his wife, and it was too much...
Such threats frighten the East Asian nations, which have come to rely upon the U.S. as a benevolent trading partner. Said Narongchai Akrasanee, managing director of Thailand's Industrial Management Co.: "Our big brother, the U.S., is threatening to declare a trade war with the rest of the family." Complained Suh Sang Mok, vice president of the Korea Development Institute: "A lot of people in South Korea feel that it is being picked out as a sacrificial lamb...